The New Nation - Internet Edition

We are pretty sighted to the worth of the brilliant gift of A Golden Age. We find it an outstanding piece of wit and wisdom that Bangladesh has yet contributed. We are very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand of great work for which we had to wait for long time. This is the original Bangladeshi's literary work that heightens our height and widens our heart. We believe, through the work, Toni Morrison and Arundhuti Roy will make you sibling of their literary family sooner or later. Your debut work reminds us of cuckoo is the harbinger of spring.

Rehana, Sohail, Maya and Sharmeen have gifted us our beloved country Bangladesh. They are still alive in the society. Presently Rehana is now vending her watery-red blood for livelihood. She has lost her husband in a road accident. But this was fishy that the local ward commissioner killed her husband. No one has courage to speak against the real fact. She continues her life through tailoring machine. Sohail is struggling for job and survival. He has completed his masters but could not buy a post from the ex prince. He is tutoring an English Medium School student at Gulshan. The other day Police raided their house for searching Yaba. Maya has been married once. But she is not a widow but like a widow: husbandless! She is working in a Garments Factory at Savar with the death threat as she has been proposed by some Pakistani blooded young muscles for amour. Sharmeen lives in Women's Hostel at Farm gate. She is not happy with her room mates. There are some outsiders who remain vigilant to their hostel gate. She scares of these black people in brown skin.

Your classic nominations of characters are very close to us. Their names seem reiterated again and again in our present Bengali society. You have perfectly incorporated and blended awe, admiration and sublimity for their universal characterisation. A Golden Age is really gold addition to our position in Commonwealth literature. Now we are confident and pompous to put example of the work beside Indian and Pakistani ones.

We give you joy of your free and brave thought. We have great pleasure in it. We find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. Your depictions of location, geography, culture and heritage of Bangladesh have kindled the portrayal of the vivid, lucid and playful language of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austin. We find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large insight only can enthuse. We greet you at the beginning of a grand career, which yet must have had a long forefront everywhere, for such a start. We have patted our eyes a little, to witness if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the unyielding brain of the book is a solemn conviction. It has the best built-in worth, namely, of vigorous and encouraging.

Recently we have been so cheerful to know that our A Golden Age (John Murray: London) has been nominated for Guardian First Book Award this year. We wish to celebrate our New Year with the Award. Amen from Mosque, Church, Temple and Pagoda! Best wishes to Tahmima Anam