The Good Muslim listed for Man Asian Prize

Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam's The Good Muslim has been long-listed for this year's Man Asian Literary Prize.
The list was unveiled on Saturday at Singapore Writers Festival. The short-list will be announced on January 10 and the winner's name on March 15 in Hong Kong, the home of the Prize, says a press release on www.manasianliteraryprize.org.
The Man Asian Literary Prize was founded in 2007. It is an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.
Eleven other books that have made it to this year's long-list are Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad, Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua, The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya, The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy, Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, The Valley of Masks by Tarun J Tejpal, Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke and The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto.
Tahmima Anam's debut novel, A Golden Age, won the Commonwealth Writers' Award for Best First Book and was short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award. She lives in London and Dhaka.
Set in the dusty streets of Dhaka and the villages and river-islands of rural Bangladesh, at a time when the rise of religious fundamentalism was a whisper in the wind, The Good Muslim is an epic, unforgettable story of the challenges of peace in the long shadow of war. It is a novel that cleaves to the simple truths that shape all of our lives: that the bonds of family and love often strain to bear the weight of history.