![]() Initially, though, Anam had a different kind of book in mind. And when she decided to write a novel about Bangladesh, Anam says, she couldn't imagine writing about anything else except the war.Īnam's first novel, A Golden Age, revolves around a family headed by a widow named Rehana - a character inspired by Anam's grandmother and the small but remarkable role she played in that war. But all her life, she heard about that country's war for independence - which took place before she was born - from her Bengali parents and their friends. ![]() ![]() The child of a diplomat, Tahmima Anam grew up far away from her native Bangladesh. But she wove family stories of her native land and its independence war into the fabric of her novel A Golden Age. Born in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam grew up mostly in the West. ![]()
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