In Anam's A Golden Age, Maya and her brother, Sohail, survived the Bangladesh war for independence. Now, Maya trains to become a doctor as Sohail struggles to put wartime memories to rest by turning increasingly to religion-which drives him and Maya apart. A well-reviewed debut, A Golden Age was a best seller on several regional lists and winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, so the quiet launch of this second in a trilogy-the first-copy printing is only 25,000-is a little disappointing. Look for this where readers liked the first book and where Asian settings and/or women's fiction are popular.
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