Uprising

Captivating, gripped me from the first page and when I finished my heart was full – ELIF SHAFAK
Tahmima Anam has written a kind of miracle. She has taken lives of awful hardship and woven from them a fable of terrible beauty. Uprising is extraordinary – SALMAN RUSHDIE
Anam’s prose - a blend of rhapsody and cackling coarseness - is crystalline … Uprising is only a slim volume, but it throbs with mesmeric power * * Telegraph * *
Dark, intense and powerful, this is a heart-breaking story … Uprising will leave you breathless – Orwell Prize for Political Fiction judges
An incantatory and fiery new novel of female defiance … Uprising is a feminist novel and a protest novel. It is a coming-of-age novel, and a response to the climate crisis; a story of sisterhood … Unwaveringly political and unflinchingly forthright. Anam shows the power of rage and radical hope. A new world can burn bright from the fires of injustice - and here, it’s the mothers that hold the match * * Guardian * *
Anam’s novel of rebellion is her finest to date … this fable of oppression draws on one of Bangladesh’s real-life exploitative brothels as well as its revolutions … Thoughtful and restrained, this slim, profound book is Anam’s best work yet … arresting * * Financial Times * *
I don’t know if there’s any story I wouldn’t trust Tahmima Anam to tell. Uprising has all the ferocity and tenderness I want in a book, and Kusum is a heroine for the ages. Anam’s words, as powerful as always, show us our brutal world and open an irresistible door to the better one beyond it. Let her beckon you to your best self with this brilliant, magical novel that’s part irrefutable reality, part holy legend, part undeniable, illuminating prophecy of how we will overcome – V.V. GANESHANANTHAN, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
An unflinching, violent storm of a novel, yet also full of humanity. It broadens our understanding of how literature can capture life in all its ugliness and glory - a magnificent achievement – TASH AW
Uprising is extraordinary … A page-turner as well as a perfectly crafted work of art … A hymn to collective action * * Harper’s Bazaar * *
A fierce and unflinching novel * * Economist * *

Tahmima Anam is the author of the Bengal trilogy and a recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the O. Henry Award. Her short story ‘Garments’ was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she trained as an anthropologist at Harvard University and now lives in London.

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