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A golden age tahmima anam review
A golden age tahmima anam review




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She loses her children for a few years before her circumstances improve, and she is able to bribe a judge to decree that her children be returned. Her brother-in-law and his wife, who are childless, argue that her children are better off living with them in Karachi. When Iqbal succumbs suddenly to a heart attack, Rehana is left with two small children to bring up. Rehana is born in Calcutta, sees her sisters married off and sent to Karachi, and is herself married - neither by choice, nor against her wishes - to a businessman, Iqbal, in Dhaka. The absurdity and futility of these dislocations is realised in a remark by Rehana who, when asked about which side she supports in East Pakistan's war of independence, says, "I'm not sure I'm a nationalist". As territories from north-west and east India became Pakistan, so, in 1971, East Pakistan became Bangladesh. And one of those countries was itself divided from birth, poised peculiarly - so thinks Rehana Haque, the protagonist of Tahmima Anam's debut novel A Golden Age - "on either side of India like a pair of horns". The arbitrary redrawing of borders on the Indian subcontinent in 1947 left it broken into two states, necessitating the largest migration of people in history.

a golden age tahmima anam review

The British empire in India was never so careless and cynical as when it left.






A golden age tahmima anam review