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The Good Muslim (2011)

by Tahmima Anam(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061478768 (ISBN13: 9780061478765)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Harper

review 1: Based in post independence Bangladesh. "she sees he fell into the abyss and that this Book is what brought him to the surface and allowed him to breathe. She see too, in herself, the need for such a rescue, such a buoy, such a truth. But because it has suddenly become clear to her that religion, its open fragrance and cloudless stretch of infinity, may infact be what he is claiming it is, an essential human need, hers as much as his, and because she feels the twinge of his yearning, turning like a leaf in her heart, she decides , at that moment, that it cannot be. She will not become one of those people who buckle under the force of a great event and allow it to change the metre of who they are." Sohail, the brother and Maya the sister. story Centered around them..rest is... more just incidental. Islam beckons both, brother embraces and sister resists. Meanwhile a country is born and torn apart.
review 2: Ugh, I really thought I was going to like this novel. For one, I didn't know it was a sequel to the author's first novel. Had I known that I would have started with that one. That information should really probably be on the cover, or at least mentioned somewhere in the front matter. The main thing that I couldn't deal with in this novel is the erratic narrative. THere are dates, references to earlier dates, and in the middle of a section taking place in a given month and year, a sudden flashback to another date, with no even mention of "she remembered...." or "she thought back to that time....". Just boom, everyone is younger it's 10 years ago and we're in another town. And I realize that can be done gracefully. And so I kept trying here, thinking it was just a real literary thing here instead of the silly dross i usually pick up these days. But no, it's not that, it's just careless. And I think the narrative jumpiness is almost suppose to serve as a distraction for the bland character content. Just, spare yourself. If you read the first book and are dying to hang out with those characters some more, maybe it's awesome. I kind of doubt it. less

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