Uprising: A Novel

Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

Equal parts heartrending and hopeful, Uprising is an “extraordinary” (Salman Rushdie), “powerful and uncompromising” (Kamila Shamsie) literary portrait of women’s lives told from the collective voice of their children.

On a desolate, sinking island off the coast of Bangladesh, a group of children witness their mothers endure cruelty and servitude.

Bought and sold by a merciless madam they call Amma, the women have mostly accepted their fat...