A Golden Age - Rilegato

'Anam achieves a delicacy and tenderness in conjuring the "threads of feeling" between people, a poetic precision of images: kites floating, huts sinking into the sea, "hungry, cracked earth". From the wreckage and destruction grows a voice of real eloquence' (Anita Sethi, Independent)

'Anam has created for Bangladesh what Romesh Gunesekera managed for Sri Lanka: a ballad for perserverance . . . A Golden Age pays tribute, with sensitivity and restrained passion, to those who fought for one such arbour: a country to call home' (Christian House, Independent on Sunday)

'Anam has her own distinctive voice . . . the authenticity shines through Anam's beautiful, simple prose' (Martha Kearney, Harper's Bazaar)

'A stunning novel lays bare a mother's ordeal in the gulf between the two Pakistans' (Observer)

'A Golden Age compellingly twists the personal and the historical, humming with handed down wisdom' (Richard Godwin, Literary Review)

'Vivid . . . momentous change and heartbreaking dilemmas' (Publishing News)

'I'd put a few bob on Tahmima Anam - the extract from her novel-in-progress . . . is a vivid and intriguing slice of Bangladesh in 1959' (Written following the publication of Bedford Square, an anthology of new writing from Poet Laureate Andrew Motion's Creative Writing Programme at Royal Holloway, which included an extract from A Golden Age) (The Times)

A Bengali Suite Francaise (Jonathan Freedland, Newsnight Review)

'A steely tale of how one family deals with political unrest ... Moving and beautifully written' (Woman)

'Anam writes with a poetic lyricism that is both seductively romantic and explores troubling themes and violent truths with searing verisimilitude. An outstanding debut that glows with the golden hue of the title' (Easy Living)

Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975 and grew up in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok. She trained as an anthropologist, earning a PhD from Harvard University. In 2005 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London, and is the recipient of a Writing Fellowship from the Arts Council of England. She lives in London.