A Golden Age

Amazing book and highly recommended. Among the top young British novelists, according to Granta. 1971 spring in East Pakistan. Sohail and Maya, Rehana Haque's cherished children, will attend a celebration. Rehana wishes to keep this day in her memory forever because her tiny family is developing quickly. However, something violent is developing on the sweltering city streets. Rehana fights to keep her children safe as the civil war progresses—a war that would ultimately result in the creation of Bangladesh—and finds herself in a sad predicament.