The Bones of Grace - Couverture souple

Anam, Tahmima

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ISBN 10 : 0143429051 ISBN 13 : 9780143429050

Editeur : Penguin Books India, 2017

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A modern love story that explores the complexities of having to choose between an arranged marriage and a marriage of love

On the eve of her departure to find the bones of the walking whale—the fossil that provides a missing link in our evolution—Zubaida Haque falls in love with Elijah Strong, a man she meets in a darkened concert hall in Boston. Their connection is immediate and intense, despite their differences: Elijah belongs to a prototypical American family; Zubaida is the adopted daughter of a wealthy Bangladeshi family in Dhaka. When a twist of fate sends her back to her hometown, the inevitable force of society compels her to take a very different path: she marries her childhood best friend and settles into a traditional Bangladeshi life.

While her family is pleased by her obedience, Zubaida seethes with discontent. Desperate to finally free herself from her familial constraints, she moves to Chittagong to work on a documentary film about the infamous beaches where decommissioned ships are destroyed and their remains are salvaged by locals, who depend on the goods for their survival. Among them is Anwar, a shipbreaker whose story holds a key that will unlock the mysteries of Zubaida’s past—and the possibilities of a new life. As she witnesses a ship being ripped down to its bones, this woman torn between the social mores of her two homes—Bangladesh and America—will be forced to strip away the vestiges of her own life . . . and make a choice from which she can never turn back.

Revue de presse :

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 Burnt Shadows)

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 Kinder Than Solitude and The Vagrants, PEN/Hemingway Award Winner)

Love and estrangement, science and tradition, discovery and loss-with majesty, brilliant metaphor and unerring precision, Tahmima Anam explores the essential dichotomies of our present and past. (Manil Suri, author of The Death of Vishnu)

Reading The Bones of Grace, Tahmima Anam’s new novel, you’ll be moved by the author’s portrayal of hollowed-out characters pining for that which would make them whole again. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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