Third novel of Tahmima Anam launched

The third novel of award-winning author Tahmima Anam ‘The Bones of Grace’, the last of Anam’s trilogy on the Haque family, came out in the UK on May 19 this year published by Canongate Books.
The US edition of the book, published by HarperCollins, will be available in the market in June, says a press release from London, by HarperCollins.
Unlike the first two books of the series “A Golden Age” and “The Good Muslim”, which are mostly set in Tahmima’s home country Bangladesh, “The Bones of Grace” begins at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It tells the story of US-educated palaeontologist Zubaida Haque whose research interest in ancient whales brings her back to her homeland, Bangladesh, and subsequently she sets off on a journey to find her personal roots.
Anam in her debut novel, “A Golden Age”, published in 2007, set out to chronicle three generations of the Haque family from Bangladesh’s War of Independence to the present day. “A Golden Age”, which begins in the late 1950s and describes the Liberation War, won Anam a devoted global readership as well as the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: Best First Book.
Its sequel, “The Good Muslim”, was long-listed for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. The time period of “The Good Muslim”, where the characters of “A Golden Age” grow up, portrays the 1980s Bangladesh, the press release added.

Third novel of Tahmima Anam launched

The third novel of award-winning author Tahmima Anam The Bones of Grace, the last of Anams trilogy on the Haque family, came out in the UK on May 19 this year published by Canongate Books. The US edition of the book, published by HarperCollins, will be available in the market in June, says a press release from London, by HarperCollins. Unlike the first two books of the series A Golden Age and The Good Muslim, which are mostly set in Tahmimas home country Bangladesh, The Bones of Grace begins at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It tells the story of US-educated palaeontologist Zubaida Haque whose research interest in ancient whales brings her back to her homeland, Bangladesh, and subsequently she sets off on a journey to find her personal roots. Anam in her debut novel, A Golden Age, published in 2007, set out to chronicle three generations of the Haque family from Bangladeshs War of Independence to the present day. A Golden Age, which begins in the late 1950s and describes the Liberation War, won Anam a devoted global readership as well as the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book. Its sequel, The Good Muslim, was long-listed for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. The time period of The Good Muslim, where the characters of A Golden Age grow up, portrays the 1980s Bangladesh, the press release added.