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Anam's prose is glowing and graceful * * Guardian * * One of the most impressive novelists of her generation * * The Times * * Seemingly disparate stories slowly coming together one by one, until the moment a last piece clicks sweetly into place to give us the revelation of a perfect, satisfying whole * * Spectator * * 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 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 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 * * Absolutely beautiful -- GEORGE ALAGAIA Personal destinies and public roles, national and international economies of desire and labour, and - perhaps most compellingly - the shadows of a traumatic past which nearly destroyed a nation . . . the story is speckled with anecdotes from the history of a country both young and very old * * Guardian * * Intimate, confessional, alluring . . . a polyphony of pasts, from prehistoric to the present * * Financial Times * * Powerful . . . Superlative writing * * Observer * *

The Bones of Grace. It is the story of Zubaida, and her search for herself. It is a story she tells for Elijah, the love of her life. It tells the story of Anwar, the link in Zubaida's broken chain. Woven within these tales are the stories of a whale and a ship; a piano and a lost boy. This is the story of love itself.