Comments on: Review: Tahmima Anam’s “A Golden Age” http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: M. Royal http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-288714 M. Royal Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:19:05 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-288714 <p>Studying this novel in Jamaica. This text has reached across the great seas to an other hemisphere of this vast world and has scoped through the halls of time and has made an event of historical significance, but yet still of such a remote nature, personal and relevant to me, I felt as though i was on the streets in Bangladesh feeling their pain sharing in their sorrow and roaring at the top of my lungs " JOY BANGALI"</p> Studying this novel in Jamaica. This text has reached across the great seas to an other hemisphere of this vast world and has scoped through the halls of time and has made an event of historical significance, but yet still of such a remote nature, personal and relevant to me, I felt as though i was on the streets in Bangladesh feeling their pain sharing in their sorrow and roaring at the top of my lungs ” JOY BANGALI”

]]> By: coffeescoop http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196447 coffeescoop Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:40:31 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196447 <p>I too thought that the book was just about an average read. There were certain setups in the book that came across as quite contrived -- when she meets and cares for her tenants, the Senguptas, in an Indian refugee camp for example. Overall it was a tad too melodramatic.</p> <p>A good start for a young author, I must admit.</p> I too thought that the book was just about an average read. There were certain setups in the book that came across as quite contrived — when she meets and cares for her tenants, the Senguptas, in an Indian refugee camp for example. Overall it was a tad too melodramatic.

A good start for a young author, I must admit.

]]> By: melbourne desi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196445 melbourne desi Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:08:30 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196445 <p>Surprised that there have not been any comments on her 'hotness'. The lady in the picture is so bloody hot.</p> Surprised that there have not been any comments on her ‘hotness’. The lady in the picture is so bloody hot.

]]> By: payal http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196395 payal Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:08:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196395 <p>Hi...so I'm completely new to this blog. Though I haven't read the book - if you wanted to inform London Residents that she will be speaking TOMORROW SUNDAY MARCH 9 here in LONDON.</p> <p>Website: http://www.alternativearts.co.uk/cmsfiles/IWW_separate_pages.pdf</p> <p>WISE WORDS produced by Alternative Arts Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road. E1 6LA 6.30pm FREE 020 7247 258 BISHWO SHAHITTO KENDRO Tahmima Anam, ShamimAzad, Leeza Gazi, Khadija Rahman Bangladeshi women writers from Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (BSK) – theWorld Literature Centre – discuss Tamima Anam’s first novel ‘A Golden Age’ (John Murray) set in Bangladesh during theWar of Independence</p> Hi…so I’m completely new to this blog. Though I haven’t read the book – if you wanted to inform London Residents that she will be speaking TOMORROW SUNDAY MARCH 9 here in LONDON.

Website: http://www.alternativearts.co.uk/cmsfiles/IWW_separate_pages.pdf

WISE WORDS produced by Alternative Arts Rich Mix 35-47 Bethnal Green Road. E1 6LA 6.30pm FREE 020 7247 258 BISHWO SHAHITTO KENDRO Tahmima Anam, ShamimAzad, Leeza Gazi, Khadija Rahman Bangladeshi women writers from Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (BSK) – theWorld Literature Centre – discuss Tamima Anam’s first novel ‘A Golden Age’ (John Murray) set in Bangladesh during theWar of Independence

]]> By: moazzam http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196384 moazzam Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:17:28 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196384 <p>there is a novel by pakistani writer sorayya khan by the title of noor that is wrapped around the 71 war. i think it is a superior novel to that of anam's in terms of emotional depth and technique. see a review of it at writer mahmud rahman's blog: www.mahmudrahman.com</p> <p>moazzam</p> there is a novel by pakistani writer sorayya khan by the title of noor that is wrapped around the 71 war. i think it is a superior novel to that of anam’s in terms of emotional depth and technique. see a review of it at writer mahmud rahman’s blog: http://www.mahmudrahman.com

moazzam

]]> By: nfa http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196375 nfa Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:19:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196375 <blockquote>in a a cute way</blockquote> <p>see i am so smitten i am beginning to stutter.....</p> in a a cute way

see i am so smitten i am beginning to stutter…..

]]> By: nfa http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196374 nfa Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:17:02 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196374 <p>okay i swear i do not view everything through the 'hot or not' prism but i think she is.......hot I mean... in a a cute way......i am sure she writes well too....but for now thats all i have to add.</p> <p>sorry....ya'll were sayin....?</p> okay i swear i do not view everything through the ‘hot or not’ prism but i think she is…….hot I mean… in a a cute way……i am sure she writes well too….but for now thats all i have to add.

sorry….ya’ll were sayin….?

]]> By: sakshi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196334 sakshi Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:47:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196334 <p>Thanks for the recommendation, Amardeep: I'll look for it. Hopefully it will reaffirm my prejudices against the Pakistani military ;) .</p> Thanks for the recommendation, Amardeep: I’ll look for it. Hopefully it will reaffirm my prejudices against the Pakistani military ;) .

]]> By: BengaliTigress http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196320 BengaliTigress Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:05:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196320 <p>Amardeep,</p> <p>I feel that even though it did portray a lot of the turmoil during those times and allowed it to be seen in a somewhat objective light (as the narrator was formerly from Pakistan), I feel that the narration style could have been one that made you connect to the characters more, and allow you to feel their plight. From hearing lots of stories about the Bangladeshi war, I feel that not enough emotion was attached to it all. Overall it was a good read, but I wouldn't read it over again. With writers in the South Asian literature diaspora like Kiran Desai and Rohin Mistry, I feel that Tahmima needs to up her game a bit so to say.</p> Amardeep,

I feel that even though it did portray a lot of the turmoil during those times and allowed it to be seen in a somewhat objective light (as the narrator was formerly from Pakistan), I feel that the narration style could have been one that made you connect to the characters more, and allow you to feel their plight. From hearing lots of stories about the Bangladeshi war, I feel that not enough emotion was attached to it all. Overall it was a good read, but I wouldn’t read it over again. With writers in the South Asian literature diaspora like Kiran Desai and Rohin Mistry, I feel that Tahmima needs to up her game a bit so to say.

]]> By: SP http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/03/07/review_tahmima/comment-page-1/#comment-196317 SP Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:58:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5077#comment-196317 <p>"is it likely that an upper middle-class Bangladeshi family would eat a meal of roast lamb"</p> <p>Don't know about Bangladeshis, but Calcutta bengalis, definitely!! There's a huge Raj-hangover contingent! I've personally heard people call each other "old chap" and generally speak like characters out of some sort of Graham Greene novel there. A great-uncle who lived there all his life was the caricature of the Brown Sahib.</p> “is it likely that an upper middle-class Bangladeshi family would eat a meal of roast lamb”

Don’t know about Bangladeshis, but Calcutta bengalis, definitely!! There’s a huge Raj-hangover contingent! I’ve personally heard people call each other “old chap” and generally speak like characters out of some sort of Graham Greene novel there. A great-uncle who lived there all his life was the caricature of the Brown Sahib.

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