A Golden Age (P.S.) - Tapa blanda

"A vibrant first novel.A story that is both intimately close to the family and large enough to encompass a revolution." -- Denver Post

"Compelling.Anam is cracking open secrets, personal and political, to let the healing begin." -- O magazine

"Told with great skill and urgency.Spellbinding in its sense of quiet foreboding.Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small, unheralded moments, the ones slipping effortlessly between the interstices of major conflagrations, which truly touch the heart." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"A glittering debut.Readers of Khaled Hosseini's brutal but magnificent A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS will find similar pleasures in Anam's book." -- St. Petersburg Times

"Moving.Full of beauty.Both a riveting tale and a lament for the atrocities the people suffered during Pakistan's invasion in 1971 .The novel just keeps getting stronger as it progresses.building to a doozy of an ending." -- Christian Science Monitor

"eventful, exotic, intelligent, and romantic" -- Entertainment Weekly

"Readable and well crafted . . . Compelling . . . A generous act of creative empathy . . . Anam does not flinch from complexity and horror of a more intimate nature than the details of atrocities."--Washington Post Book World

"Compelling...Anam is cracking open secrets, personal and political, to let the healing begin."--O magazine

"A vibrant first novel...A story that is both intimately close to the family and large enough to encompass a revolution."--Denver Post

"Written with marvelous control and understatement, this first novel impressed me with its maturity."--Women's Review of Books

As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed forever in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives forever. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.