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
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
An urgent, collective-voice novel . . . I loved it -- ALEX PRESTON * * Observer * *
A dark, brazen fairytale with seething forests, a wicked matriarch and monsters who devour the flesh of innocent maidens. With gusto, Anam casts a spell that ignites and lights up the circuits and dynamics of exploitation, and offers a way out -- LEILA ABOULELA
The politics of rich and poor across the countries of the Global South play out to powerful effect . . . Tahmima Anam's Uprising, about enslaved sex workers in climate-threatened Bangladesh * * New Statesman * *
Through the lives of a handful of women trapped in a brothel, Tahmima Anam paints a kaleidoscopic picture of a part of Bengal Delta that is in the throes of cataclysmic change - economic, technological and environmental. Both devastating and inspirational, Uprising is not to be missed -- AMITAV GHOSH
Powerful and uncompromising, Uprising looks into one of the darkest corners of the world and finds bright fire -- KAMILA SHAMSIE
A devastatingly potent novel. Anam goes to the darkest reaches of the psyche and forges, of what she finds there, an astonishing hope - for her characters, for us all. The novel's choral narration sets a brightness against despair - the innocence of its young girls, their indomitability, and the painfully-willed sisterhood of its women, is heartbreaking, life-affirming, beautiful -- LUCY CALDWELL