by Tahmima Anam · AMSTERDAM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493687946
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«Dies d'amor i de guerra» is the historical novel by Tahmima Anam, published by Amsterdam in paperback (296 pages, in Catalan).
East Pakistan, 1971. Rehana Haque, a young widow, prepares a party for her children while the country heads towards the Bangladesh War of Independence. Political tension forces students, leaders and soldiers to take sides, and Rehana's family too. Rehana tries to keep them safe amid the conflict.
First instalment of the Bangla Desh saga. Original title: A Golden Age. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008 for best first novel. Catalan translation by Marta Salvadó Morral.
For readers of historical fiction who want to approach the Bangladesh War of Independence through a family story.
Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.
