What does it mean to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen - and a good Muslim?

One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how do you begin to understand a brother who has taken a path so different from your own? Maya faces these questions and many more in The Good Muslim, an extraordinary novel about faith, family and the long shadow of war.

"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 *

"Powerful and ambitious, The Good Muslim more than fulfils the promises of Tahmima Anam's celebrated debut, A Golden Age" - * Guardian *

"An exceptional and searching look at the horrors of war" - * Metro *

"A lyrical, thought-provoking, powerful meditation on belief, love and loyalty" - * Easy Living *

"A major new talent" - * Observer *

"A fascinating, intense and complex book" - * The Lady *

"Provides some penetrating meditations on faith, war, linguistic and class hegemony, parenthood, sibling rivalry and love. One looks forward to the third volume of the trilogy." - * Times Literary Supplement *

"Impressive . . . Anam subtly handles the clash of opposing values to produce a powerful exploration of what it means to be radicalised as well as a moving depiction of the legacy of war. The Good Muslim more than confirms the promise apparent in her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning debut" - * Financial Times *

"What a superb novel. Its delicacy and power and breadth -- the way its compassion and grief keep complicating its anger -- I read it with heart in mouth" - * Helen Garner, author of THE SPARE ROOM *

"Anam has done a service to her country ... No other writer has treated the subject with such clarity before, in English" - * Times Literary Supplement on A Golden Age *

"In this striking debut novel ... Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment" - * The New Yorker on A Golden Age *

"An assured, moving read" - * The Times on A Golden Age *

"Beautifully told, intimate and touching; 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 on A Golden Age *

"Anam's prose is glowing and graceful throughout; whether detailing the degradations of a refugee camp, the tenderness of an unexpected love affair, or the exhilarated dread of a nation in cataclysm" - * Guardian on A Golden Age *

"This is storytelling at its best ... A beautiful story of hope, heroism and human survival amid cruelty. Everyone should read this and learn" - * Daily Express on A Golden Age *

"I couldn't tear myself away...the authenticity shines through Anam's beautiful, simple prose" - * Harper's Bazaar on A Golden Age *

"A real page-turner, with a bravura, heart-stopping ending" - * Telegraph on A Golden Age *

"A Bengali Suite Française" - * Newsnight Review on A Golden Age *

"An important novel" - * Observer *