- Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Perennial; Auflage: Reprint (6. Januar 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 006147875X
- ISBN-13: 978-0061478758
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 13,5 x 2,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 155.976 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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“In this striking debut novel . . . Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment while lyrically depicting the way in which the struggle for freedom allows Rehana to discover both her strength and her heart.” (The New Yorker )
“A vibrant first novel…A story that is both intimately close to the family and large enough to encompass a revolution.” (Denver Post )
“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 )
“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 )
“A GOLDEN AGE has everything an epic should have...[Anam] is able to convey the larger story of politics and war against a much smaller and more intimate story.” (San Jose Mercury News )
“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 )
“Written with marvelous control and understatement, this first novel impressed me with its maturity.” (Women's Review of Books )
“eventful, exotic, intelligent, and romantic” (Entertainment Weekly )
“Tahmima Anam’s startlingly accomplished and gripping novel describes not only the tumult of a great historical event…but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals living in the shadow of revolution and war.” (Pankaj Mishra )
“[A] wonderful addition to the growing list of novels that seek, in some way, to help us understand the history and people of South Asia.” (USA Today )
“Compelling…Anam is cracking open secrets, personal and political, to let the healing begin.” (O magazine )
“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 )
“An illumination on how far a woman will go to protect her children’s bodies and souls . . . Anam reminds us most forcefully that a mother’s love for her child is the most powerful and frightening weapon there is.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune )
“Anam’s story gains momentum as its characters take shape…Readers will feel the depth of this nation’s crisis through its people, and the conclusion delivers a surprising blow.” (Rocky Mountain News )
“An impressive debut...Rehana’s metamorphosis encapsulates her country’s tragedy and makes for an immersive, wrenching narrative.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )
“A vibrant first novel…A story that is both intimately close to the family and large enough to encompass a revolution.” (Denver Post )
“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 )
“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 )
“A GOLDEN AGE has everything an epic should have...[Anam] is able to convey the larger story of politics and war against a much smaller and more intimate story.” (San Jose Mercury News )
“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 )
“Written with marvelous control and understatement, this first novel impressed me with its maturity.” (Women's Review of Books )
“eventful, exotic, intelligent, and romantic” (Entertainment Weekly )
“Tahmima Anam’s startlingly accomplished and gripping novel describes not only the tumult of a great historical event…but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals living in the shadow of revolution and war.” (Pankaj Mishra )
“[A] wonderful addition to the growing list of novels that seek, in some way, to help us understand the history and people of South Asia.” (USA Today )
“Compelling…Anam is cracking open secrets, personal and political, to let the healing begin.” (O magazine )
“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 )
“An illumination on how far a woman will go to protect her children’s bodies and souls . . . Anam reminds us most forcefully that a mother’s love for her child is the most powerful and frightening weapon there is.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune )
“Anam’s story gains momentum as its characters take shape…Readers will feel the depth of this nation’s crisis through its people, and the conclusion delivers a surprising blow.” (Rocky Mountain News )
“An impressive debut...Rehana’s metamorphosis encapsulates her country’s tragedy and makes for an immersive, wrenching narrative.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )
Kurzbeschreibung
Rehana Haque, a young widow, blissfully prepares for the party she will host for her son and daughter. But this is 1971 in East Pakistan, and change is in the air.
Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution; of hope, faith, and unexpected heroism in the midst of chaos—and of one woman's heartbreaking struggle to keep her family safe.
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Tahmima Anams Buch " A Golden Age" ist eines- wenn nicht sogar das- beste Buch über die Geschichte Bangladeschs seit 1971. In diesem beschreibt sie die anrührende Geschichte einer Mutter und ihrer Kinder, die zur Zeit der Teilung Pakistans in Pakistan und Bangladesch so lebt, wie viele Bengalen damals lebten: zerissen in einer Welt, die tausende Kilometer voneinander getrennt ist, zugehörig zu einem Land, das jenseits der Grenzen liegt und doch zuhause in einem anderen Land, das die Freiheit sucht. A Golden Age spiegelt die Geschichte vieler Bengalen, Bangladeschis und Pakistanis wieder, die gemeinsam 1947 in einem Land lebten, um sich 24 Jahre später wieder in einem blutigen Bürgerkrieg zu trennen. Tahmima Anam beschreibt dieses blutige Kapitel der Weltgeschichte und einen Bürgerkrieg, der die ganze Welt in Atem hielt und verliert doch nicht die Perspektive des alltäglichen Lebens mit seinen typischen Alltäglichkeiten, die noch heute die Region prägen. Somit ist A Golden Age nicht nur ein faszinierender Rückblick auf die Geschehnisse vor, während und nach 1971, sondern auch ein Einblick in eine Alltags- und Gefühlswelt, die selbst in einem Land wie Bangladesch allmählich verschwindet.
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Der Roman spielt vor dem Hintergrund des bangladeschischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges (März - Dezember 1971). Hauptfigur ist Rehana, eine Witwe mit zwei gerade erwachsen werdenden Kindern, die die neue Nation begeistert begrüßen und sich am Befreiungskampf gegen (West-)Pakistan beteiligen. Rehana wird eine politische Heldin des entstehenden Staates, da sie Guerillakämpfern auf ihrem Anwesen Unterschlupf gewährt - aber sie handelt primär aus Liebe zu ihren Kindern. Die hatte sie vor 10 Jahren schon einmal verloren: Kurz nach dem Tod ihres Ehemanns kam dessen Bruder aus Lahore und nahm die Kinder mit. Was Rehana getan hat, um sie zurückzubekommen, ist ein Geheimnis, das sie nie jemandem anvertraut hat, weil sie dabei auch Schuld auf sich geladen hat. Und als ihr Sohn im Zuge des Krieges in Lebensgefahr gerät, ist sie wieder bereit, alles zu seiner Rettung zu tun.
Die Geschlechterrollen sind vielleicht nicht ganz frei von Klischees. Dennoch ist dies ein spannender Roman, der erzählt, wie ein Krieg aus der Perspektive von Zivilisten und Frauen erlebt wird und aus dem man eine Menge über die Geschichte und Kultur Bangladeschs lernen kann.
Die Geschlechterrollen sind vielleicht nicht ganz frei von Klischees. Dennoch ist dies ein spannender Roman, der erzählt, wie ein Krieg aus der Perspektive von Zivilisten und Frauen erlebt wird und aus dem man eine Menge über die Geschichte und Kultur Bangladeschs lernen kann.
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Would make a great movie, destined to be a classic
1. Dezember 2007
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War novels like Gone with the Wind, Sophie's Choice, The Book Thief to name a few, capture the stresses and choices that ordinary people are forced to make as the brutality and deprivation of war, occupation, captivity, that change the ordinary circumstances of life into a living nightmare. This book is no different.
The book starts with a prologue where the widow Rehana sits at her husband's grave and tells him that she has lost the children. Because of her poverty, her husband's brother and childless sister-in-law have taken custody of Sohail and Maya, Rehana's 7 and 5 year olds. Even though they are gone for only a year, Rehana feels in her heart the yearning gap of that year and devotes herself totally to her children.
Every year, they have a party where they celebrate the children's return. March 1971 was no different. The party had become a routine, the same guests, Rehana's neighbors, a tenant family from India, the gin-rummy ladies and her daughter's friend. They are celebrating and optimistic of the future. But within a few short weeks, tanks rolled into Dhaka, refugees start streaming out, massacres occur in the city, and her children are drawn into the resistance movement. Life is anything but ordinary when Rehana is drawn into the resistance by her son and daughter. Faced with her guilt at how she lost them for a short while when they were young, and the secret of how she was able to bring them back, Rehana goes along with their efforts, hiding guns and supplies in her home and harboring and caring for a wounded major that at first she regards as a nuisance.
She would like nothing better than to retreat into her routine, her shell, sitting at her late husband's grave and speaking to him, and lying to him and herself about the normalcy of her life, ignoring her daughter's cold shoulder and indifference, and her own guilt at the shameful acts she took to bring her children back. But as the weeks went by, taking care of the major who only greeted her with silent eyes, she begins to open up to him, telling him of her secrets, as if to atone for them and he silently bears her secrets for her.
The war tears Rehana's circle apart, lives tragically destroyed, destinies changed. Rehana meets her former tenant in a refugee camp, a walking shell, with nothing left inside her except sorrow, for the choice she made, she'll pay with tears the rest of her life.
At the end, Rehana herself makes a heartbreaking choice, and even though the war ends a few weeks later, there is no victory, only sorrow in Rehana's heart. As the rest of the city celebrates Rehana speaks to her dead husband, telling him that this time, she did not lose her children.
This is a very poignant novel with plenty of action, raw emotions, youthful enthusiasm, and the painful legacies of war, and the birth of a nation.
The book starts with a prologue where the widow Rehana sits at her husband's grave and tells him that she has lost the children. Because of her poverty, her husband's brother and childless sister-in-law have taken custody of Sohail and Maya, Rehana's 7 and 5 year olds. Even though they are gone for only a year, Rehana feels in her heart the yearning gap of that year and devotes herself totally to her children.
Every year, they have a party where they celebrate the children's return. March 1971 was no different. The party had become a routine, the same guests, Rehana's neighbors, a tenant family from India, the gin-rummy ladies and her daughter's friend. They are celebrating and optimistic of the future. But within a few short weeks, tanks rolled into Dhaka, refugees start streaming out, massacres occur in the city, and her children are drawn into the resistance movement. Life is anything but ordinary when Rehana is drawn into the resistance by her son and daughter. Faced with her guilt at how she lost them for a short while when they were young, and the secret of how she was able to bring them back, Rehana goes along with their efforts, hiding guns and supplies in her home and harboring and caring for a wounded major that at first she regards as a nuisance.
She would like nothing better than to retreat into her routine, her shell, sitting at her late husband's grave and speaking to him, and lying to him and herself about the normalcy of her life, ignoring her daughter's cold shoulder and indifference, and her own guilt at the shameful acts she took to bring her children back. But as the weeks went by, taking care of the major who only greeted her with silent eyes, she begins to open up to him, telling him of her secrets, as if to atone for them and he silently bears her secrets for her.
The war tears Rehana's circle apart, lives tragically destroyed, destinies changed. Rehana meets her former tenant in a refugee camp, a walking shell, with nothing left inside her except sorrow, for the choice she made, she'll pay with tears the rest of her life.
At the end, Rehana herself makes a heartbreaking choice, and even though the war ends a few weeks later, there is no victory, only sorrow in Rehana's heart. As the rest of the city celebrates Rehana speaks to her dead husband, telling him that this time, she did not lose her children.
This is a very poignant novel with plenty of action, raw emotions, youthful enthusiasm, and the painful legacies of war, and the birth of a nation.
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Fine debut about war for independence in Bangladesh
12. April 2008
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Tahmima Anam's novel "A Golden Age" was an interesting novel about a widow, her children, and the war for independence in Bangladesh. It also is a novel about taking risks for noble causes, romance during impossible times, and the growing pains of both children and countries; really, this is an excellent novel, that falls just short of "instant classic" status.
Anam's main point seems to be that it's impossible for people to stay apart from a war for independence; people must choose sides even if they initially wish to stay apart. Anam's protagonist, Rehana Haque, has to watch her daughter, and her son, get caught up in the war effort, and has the same reactions many women would have; she doesn't want her son to go to war, and she doesn't want her daughter anywhere near it. Complicating matters further, Rehana isn't even from Bangladesh; she originally was from India (and speaks fluent Urdu), and only married her late husband to escape poverty -- yet she grew both to love her husband and her adopted country (then called East Pakistan).
As more and more things happen to Bangladesh -- and to her children's college friends -- Rehana grows more and more disgusted. Despite the many years of isolation she's endured -- some self-inflicted, some not -- since her husband's passing, Rehana knows she has to take a stand -- especially after her son first goes off to war, and then her daughter as well. Rehana knows she can't sit idly by, when things can be done, and she ends up aiding the war effort in as many ways she can.
Then she becomes attracted to a man who's recovering in her home from a serious wound; he's her age, he's had quite a bit of life experience, and he doesn't judge her for any of her past actions -- good, bad, or indifferent. This heightens the tension overall, and gives Rehana's spiritual and emotional journey/reawakening more depth and breadth.
There's a lot in this novel, and a lot to like about it; there's a richness of feeling and description that adds greatly to the way this book is presented, as Rehana's descriptions tend to be stark and rather uncomplicated (even though she herself is anything but).
I appreciated this novel quite a bit, and would recommend it to anyone who was looking for an accurate portrayal of the struggle for Bangladesh's independence; I also appreciated that the violence that was portrayed (the way the P.O.W. was treated, for example) was not glorified -- it was portrayed as disgusting, as most reasonable people would see it.
At any rate, I think this is an excellent novel, and find it just shy of a five-star effort.
Very strong four star effort, recommended.
Barb Caffrey
Anam's main point seems to be that it's impossible for people to stay apart from a war for independence; people must choose sides even if they initially wish to stay apart. Anam's protagonist, Rehana Haque, has to watch her daughter, and her son, get caught up in the war effort, and has the same reactions many women would have; she doesn't want her son to go to war, and she doesn't want her daughter anywhere near it. Complicating matters further, Rehana isn't even from Bangladesh; she originally was from India (and speaks fluent Urdu), and only married her late husband to escape poverty -- yet she grew both to love her husband and her adopted country (then called East Pakistan).
As more and more things happen to Bangladesh -- and to her children's college friends -- Rehana grows more and more disgusted. Despite the many years of isolation she's endured -- some self-inflicted, some not -- since her husband's passing, Rehana knows she has to take a stand -- especially after her son first goes off to war, and then her daughter as well. Rehana knows she can't sit idly by, when things can be done, and she ends up aiding the war effort in as many ways she can.
Then she becomes attracted to a man who's recovering in her home from a serious wound; he's her age, he's had quite a bit of life experience, and he doesn't judge her for any of her past actions -- good, bad, or indifferent. This heightens the tension overall, and gives Rehana's spiritual and emotional journey/reawakening more depth and breadth.
There's a lot in this novel, and a lot to like about it; there's a richness of feeling and description that adds greatly to the way this book is presented, as Rehana's descriptions tend to be stark and rather uncomplicated (even though she herself is anything but).
I appreciated this novel quite a bit, and would recommend it to anyone who was looking for an accurate portrayal of the struggle for Bangladesh's independence; I also appreciated that the violence that was portrayed (the way the P.O.W. was treated, for example) was not glorified -- it was portrayed as disgusting, as most reasonable people would see it.
At any rate, I think this is an excellent novel, and find it just shy of a five-star effort.
Very strong four star effort, recommended.
Barb Caffrey
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Interesting book about the Bangladesh war
26. Januar 2008
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I knew very little about the history of the country of Bangladesh and it's quest for independence and found this book to be very interesting and informative.
Also enjoyed the family story about the grieving widow Rehana and how she deals with the loss and threats to her children - this is an illuminating tale about acts of heroism during a time of war. The language in this novel is beautiful yet simple - when a novelist can lay out such complexities in a tightly written book with simple, unpretentious prose, it is a joy to read. A Golden Age gives the reader a gradual build of tension that kept me engaged and turning the page through to the end.
I think book clubs would really enjoy this book because there is lots to discuss as it relates to the extreme devotion that a mother can have for their children.
Also enjoyed the family story about the grieving widow Rehana and how she deals with the loss and threats to her children - this is an illuminating tale about acts of heroism during a time of war. The language in this novel is beautiful yet simple - when a novelist can lay out such complexities in a tightly written book with simple, unpretentious prose, it is a joy to read. A Golden Age gives the reader a gradual build of tension that kept me engaged and turning the page through to the end.
I think book clubs would really enjoy this book because there is lots to discuss as it relates to the extreme devotion that a mother can have for their children.
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