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Brick Lane by Monica Ali begins in the village of Gouripur in rural Bangladesh, where Rupban is going into labor two months early with the birth of her eldest daughter, Nazneen.
After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband.
Jul 29, 2020 · Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped - yet ultimately not bound - by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them.
Jun 2, 2004 · Praise for Brick Lane. “Brick Lane is deeply rewarding... a popular success fueled by a critical one...One feels the enabling weight of the 19th century, of a history of novels about people cut off from their origins, adrift in Europe’s great cities...
Brick Lane: A Novel. Monica Ali. Simon and Schuster, Sep 29, 2003 - Fiction - 384 pages. “A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind,...
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Mar 11, 2008 · Brick Lane: A Novel. Monica Ali. Simon and Schuster, Mar 11, 2008 - Fiction - 428 pages. Monica Ali's gorgeous first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a...
Jun 2, 2003 · Brick Lane. Written by Monica Ali. An epic yet intimate novel set in the Asian community in London’s East End, full of warm humour and strikingly imagined by Monica Ali. Still a teenager, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man twenty years her senior.
May 1, 2004 · Buy Brick Lane: By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE (Black Swan) by Ali, Monica (ISBN: 9780552771153) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders.
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Sep 29, 2003 · After a brief opening section set in East Pakistan-Nazneen's younger sister, the beautiful Hasina, elopes in a love marriage, and the quiet, plain Nazneen is married off to an older man-Ali begins a meticulous exploration of Nazneen's life in London, where her husband has taken her to live.
