Though she managed to get them back, the experience has made her vow never to lose them again. She lost them once when a court declared her unfit to care for the children and sent them to live with her family back in East Pakistan. Rehana Haque, a young Urdu-speaking widow, is fiercely protective of her son Sohail and daughter Maya. This is not a novel about politics however it’s about one family’s experience of nationalist fervour that gives rise to a war and the eventual birth of a new nation. A little research revealed that it’s Tahmima Anam’s debut novel, apparently inspired by the experience of her politician grandfather and journalist father during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. I hadn’t heard of A Golden Age before it was chosen for The Big Jubilee Read: a list of books from across the Commonwealth selected to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
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