- Muslims, Islamic fundamentalism, FICTION / General, Fiction
"From prize-winning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam, her deeply moving second novel about the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh seen through the intimate lens of a family"--
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Tahmima Anam, Tahmima Anam
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- Charnwood, Canongate Books, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847679758
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