“Thoughtful and restrained, this slim, profound book is Anam's best work yet.” —Financial Times
 
“Uprising is extraordinary... A page-turner as well as a perfectly crafted work of art.” —Harper's Bazaar (UK)
 
“Dark, intense and powerful, this is a heartbreaking story... Uprising will leave you breathless.”  —Orwell Prize for Political Fiction judges

“An incantatory and fiery new novel of female defiance... Unwaveringly political and unflinchingly forthright, Anam shows the power of rage and radical hope.” —Guardian

“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. 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

“I devoured this ferocious, feminist fireball of a novel.” —MADELEINE FEENY, The Bookseller 

“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, Booker Prize-longlisted author of The South

“A fierce, bold novel that is tender toward its subjects and unsparing in its challenge to us as readers: to see the dispossessed of the world as Tahmima Anam does, as fully, beautifully, heartbreakingly human.” —MONICA ALI, author of Love Marriage

“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, author of Sea of Poppies

“Powerful and uncompromising, Uprising looks into one of the darkest corners of the world and finds bright fire.” —KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of Home Fire

“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, author of These Days
 
“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 lights up the circuits and dynamics of exploitation, and offers a way out.” —LEILA ABOULELA, author of River Spirit

“At once ferocious and beautiful, told in incantatory prose, this is a vital, unflinching and unforgettable novel. That it’s about an ongoing and age-old horror makes it all the more extraordinary.” —MIRZA WAHEED, author of Tell Her Everything

“A collective voice, a poem and a call-to-arms. Shocking, sweet and surprising.” —ALEXANDRA PRINGLE, author of Caravan