{"id":52,"date":"2008-05-01T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-06-08T00:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T04:40:58","slug":"a-golden-age-by-tahmima-anam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-golden-age-by-tahmima-anam\/","title":{"rendered":"A Golden Age [Bengal Trilogy, Book 1] by Tahmima Anam [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Golden-Age.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28056 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Golden-Age-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Age\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Golden-Age-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Golden-Age-800x1208.jpg 800w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Golden-Age.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s the best news up front: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tahmima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tahmima Anam<\/a>\u2019s impressive debut is the first of a planned trilogy. While still mourning the sudden loss of her too-young husband, Rehana loses custody of her young son and daughter to a scheming brother-in-law.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Separated for a year with her children faraway in Lahore while she remains in Dhaka, Rehana manages to get them back out of sheer will \u2013 determined that she will never lose them again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">In 1971 when the people of Bangladesh declare independence from Pakistan, Rehana is no longer certain how she can protect her children during a horrific time marked by betrayal and terror. But neither will she remain a silent bystander while civil war threatens to destroy her family, friends, and adopted country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/tbr-2008-05-06-in-celebration-of-apa-heritage-month.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Survey of New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>: Anam was a guest at <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival-saltaf-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">SALTAF\u00a02008<\/a> (South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival), a much-anticipated, highly-attended\u00a0annual fall event sponsored by the Smithsonian APA Program and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dcnetsap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NetSAP-DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78\" title=\"golden-age\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/02\/golden-age.jpg\" alt=\"golden-age\" width=\"115\" height=\"175\" \/>Here\u2019s the best news up front: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahmima.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tahmima Anam<\/a>\u2019s impressive debut is the first of a planned trilogy. While still mourning the sudden loss of her too-young husband, Rehana loses custody of her young son and daughter to a scheming brother-in-law. Separated for a year with her children faraway in Lahore while she remains in Dhaka, Rehana manages to get them back out of sheer will \u2013 determined that she will never lose them again. In 1971 when the people of Bangladesh declare independence from Pakistan, Rehana is no longer certain how she can protect her children during a horrific time marked by betrayal and terror. But neither will she remain a silent bystander while civil war threatens to destroy her family, friends, and adopted country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/tbr-2008-05-06-in-celebration-of-apa-heritage-month.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Survey of New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>: Anam was a guest at <a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2008\/11\/15\/south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival-saltaf-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">SALTAF\u00a02008<\/a> (South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival), a much-anticipated, highly-attended\u00a0annual fall event sponsored by the Smithsonian APA Program and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsap.org\/netsapdc\/\" target=\"_blank\">NetSAP-DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1774,2121,330,6,6535,17,18,31],"tags":[1968,6608,10,2171,24,13,39,42,7035,44,2123,45],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-bangladeshi","category-bangladeshi-american","category-british-asian","category-fiction","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-south-asian-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-golden-age","tag-historical","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-series","tag-series-bengal-trilogy","tag-siblings","tag-tahmima-anam","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Golden Age [Bengal Trilogy, Book 1] by Tahmima Anam [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-golden-age-by-tahmima-anam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Golden Age [Bengal Trilogy, Book 1] by Tahmima Anam [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s the best news up front: Tahmima Anam\u2019s impressive debut is the first of a planned trilogy. 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