This led the author to be inspired to write about everyday citizens' war experience and small, but meaningful ways they can become revolutionaries. [7] Historical context [ edit ] Map of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh Maya: Rehana's daughter, university student, moves to Kolkata to be a journalist for the freedom fighters. [4] Okay, before I say other things, first a little about Tahmima. She was born in 1975 in Dhaka but has grown up abroad (Goodreads says in Paris, New York City and Bangkok). Thus naturally She has very faint idea about Bengalis and her book says so. Anam grew up in Bangladesh and she has drawn on the stories told her by her parents who were both freedom fighters in Bangladesh’s War of Independence.

Women – Welcome to British Bangladeshi Power 100". British Bangladeshi Power 100. January 2012 . Retrieved 1 May 2012. Born in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam grew up mostly in the West. But she wove family stories of her native land and its independence war into the fabric of her novel A Golden Age. a b "Tahmima Anam '97 Makes Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists" List". Mount Holyoke College. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Anam, Tahmima (2007). A Golden Age. United Kingdom: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-7195-6010-1.The child of a diplomat, Tahmima Anam grew up far away from her native Bangladesh. But all her life, she heard about that country's war for independence — which took place before she was born — from her Bengali parents and their friends. And when she decided to write a novel about Bangladesh, Anam says, she couldn't imagine writing about anything else except the war. As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. One of those four friends was Tahmima Anam's uncle, Shaheen's older brother. He asked his mother if the resistance fighters could stay at her house, and if they could hide weapons in her garden. With the conflict taking its bloody course in the East, Rehana realises she cannot stop them from joining the Bangla effort as freedom fighters. Veering between indulgence and censure, 'there was a part of her that wanted to allow her children anything - any whimsy, any zeal, any excess', while 'another part of her wanted them to have nothing to do with it all, to keep them safe at home'. Rehana cannot keep them safe at home.

Then 25 th of march. The Pak Sena gunned down Shahid Minar, University halls and Madhuda’s canteen, murdered eminent academics and several innocent citizens (Ref. The days of 1971). Rehana, Sohail and Maya was in the house of Mrs. Chowdhury where out of panic, Mrs. Chowdhury forced her daughter Silvi to marry Sabeer. The behavior of the characters that Tahmima portrayed throughout the book are simply illogical and out of consistency. A Golden Age was Tahmima Anam’s first book and it’s not at all surprising to learn that it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in 2008. It is stunning.

Then, I did not understand, Why maya, who is a member of communist party and a supporter of Mukti Judha did not want to shelter Major!! Sudden mood change due to hormonal imbalance?