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The novelist is the daughter of Bangladeshi Daily Star editor Mahfouz Anam. The paper is perceived by some Bangladeshi's to lean politically toward the Awami League] and has aligned itself with the party in the choice of Caretaker President ] in the upcoming elections. This is a point to note given that the history of the Liberation War is contested by the Awami League and the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party. Briefly, the Awami League is considered to be the party of Liberation. Secular and left wing. This is the Anam tradition. However, the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party and the Jamaat I Islam are more right wing and revisionist, seeing the Liberation War as a conflict against the Pakistani military junta and not necessarily against Islam, which held the erswhile united Pakistan together.] ] Anam's approach to the war is bound to be from an Awami League perspective. The novelist is the daughter of Bangladeshi Daily Star editor Mahfouz Anam. The paper is perceived by some Bangladeshi's to lean politically toward the Awami League] and has aligned itself with the party in the choice of Caretaker President in the upcoming elections. This is a point to note given that the history of the Liberation War is contested by the Awami League and the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party. Briefly, the Awami League is considered to be the party of Liberation. Secular and left wing. This is the Anam tradition. However, the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party and the Jamaat I Islam are more right wing and revisionist, seeing the Liberation War as a conflict against the Pakistani military junta and not necessarily against Islam, which held the erswhile united Pakistan together.] ] Anam's approach to the war is from an Awami League perspective.





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A Golden Age
First edition
AuthorTahmima Anam
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel, War novel
PublisherJohn Murray (UK)
Publication dateMarch 2007 (UK)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback)
ISBNISBN 0719560101 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

A Golden Age is the first novel of the Bangladesh born writer Tahmima Anam. It tells the story of the Bangladesh War of Independence through the eyes of one family. The novel was recently profiled in The Guardian and The Bookseller. The first chapter of the novel appears in the January 2007 edition of Granta magazine.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1957367,00.html

http://www.thebookseller.com/?pid=2&did=21510

The War of Liberation and Bangladeshi Party politics

The novelist is the daughter of Bangladeshi Daily Star editor Mahfouz Anam. The paper is perceived by some Bangladeshi's to lean politically toward the Awami League] and has aligned itself with the party in the choice of Caretaker President in the upcoming elections. This is a point to note given that the history of the Liberation War is contested by the Awami League and the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party. Briefly, the Awami League is considered to be the party of Liberation. Secular and left wing. This is the Anam tradition. However, the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party and the Jamaat I Islam are more right wing and revisionist, seeing the Liberation War as a conflict against the Pakistani military junta and not necessarily against Islam, which held the erswhile united Pakistan together.3 4 Anam's approach to the war is from an Awami League perspective.


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