Awards

• Short-listed for Costa First Novel Award (UK).
• Short-listed for Costa First Novel Prize (UK).
• Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award (UK).
• Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2007.
• Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2007.
• Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book 2008
• Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book 2008.

Overview

East Pakistan, 1971, a country on the brink of war and a family that is about to change for ever. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her children in her rose-filled garden. Beyond the garden walls the city buzzes with excitement over recent elections. But no one could ever imagine what the coming days and months would bring-the fever, the hope, the faith and the heartbreaking choices that everyone must make, including Rehana. Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence,

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'Anam's prose is glowing and graceful throughout; whether detailing the degradations of a refugee camp, the tenderness of an unexpected love affair, or the exhilarated dread of a nation in cataclysm.' - Guardian.

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Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She grew up in Paris, New York and Bangkok, attended Harvard University, and now lives in London. Her writing has been published in Granta, New York Times and the Guardian. She is also a contributing editor to the New Statesman. A Golden Age, her first novel, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award.

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