The Bones of Grace

' A major new talent.' Observer 'Anam's prose is glowing and graceful.' Guardian 'Anam has a knack for making you care so desperately for her characters that you admire their failings as much as their strengths.' Daily Mail 'The narrative shimmers with poetry. Anam seems to be a novelist not so much luxuriating in the act of writing as in total control of it, using just the right words to create her stunning story.' Independent on The Good Muslim 'Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment.' New Yorker 'Fierce and intimate, lyrical and expansive, The Bones of Grace offers what a great novel does: symphonic movements, historical landscapes that shape our private landscapes of love and life, mysteries and enchantments, the unforgettable and the unforgotten. Tahmima Anam is a mesmerizer.' -- Yiyun Li author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 'Expansive yet intimate, weighty yet incisively funny, The Bones of Grace is a powerful examination of what it means to live in a world of collapsing boundaries and conflicting values. Few people write about identity and culture with such elegance and intelligence as Tahmima Anam.' Tash Aw, author of Five Star Billionaire 'A novel of heart, brain, and muscle - the competing pulls of history and love are evoked here with a rare honesty, and great skill.' Kamila Shamsie, author of A God in Every Stone