![]() ![]() Anam is great on description of food, Rehana is an excellent cook and the feast is described in loving detail. This, her debut novel, is set in 1971 in East Pakistan, where Rehana Haque, a young widow, is throwing a party. I’m not convinced the collection has aged that well, but it’s an audacious idea.Īnam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh (and now lives in the UK). The edition I read was published in 2012 as part of the Canongate ‘ the Canons‘ list, which is a slightly strange mixture of ‘boundary-breaking’ books that Canongate decided either were already classics in their own right, or deserved to be. ![]() First published in 2007, Tahmima Anam’s intimate civil war tale A Golden Age won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best First Book and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. ![]()
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