5/20/2023 0 Comments The good muslim by tahmima anamThey are either headstrong or reserved, and either they don’t listen to one another or are unwilling to talk about their experiences. The vast majority of The Good Muslim is from Maya’s point of view, in both the flashbacks and the present day.Ī lot of the tragedy of these two siblings drifting apart comes from the fact that they are so different. She struggles to reconnect with her brother and a nephew she doesn’t know. The chapters in the 1980s are when Maya has returned home after being away for over seven years. The chapters in the early 1970s are during the aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War, as Sohail comes back from the war and he and his family attempt to get used to what peace means. The chapters alternate between different points in time, the early 1970s and the mid-1980s. I didn’t know The Good Muslim was a sequel and I don’t feel I really missed out on anything as it reads like a standalone novel. I didn’t realise this until I went to Goodreads to mark this book as read, but The Good Muslim is the sequel to A Golden Age. Can the two, both scarred by war, come together again? And what of Sohail’s young son, Zaid, caught between worlds but desperate to belong? When she returns home to Dhaka hoping for a reconciliation, she discovers he has transformed beyond recognition. Maya Haque – outspoken, passionate, headstrong – has been estranged from her brother Sohail for almost a decade.
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