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Brick Lane - Paperback

by Monica Ali
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Availability:In StockContributor:Monica AliPublish date:2004-06-02Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743243315ISBN-10:743243315UPC:9780743243315Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, WomenSize:8.26 x 5.32 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCRBD58TAS
"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted." --Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Sisterland

After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naïve and disillusioned Chanu?

As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos.

Monica Ali's splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvelous and the terrifying spiral together.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743243315ISBN-10:743243315UPC:9780743243315Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, WomenSize:8.26 x 5.32 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCRBD58TAS
Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She was named one of the 20 best young British novelists under 40 by Granta. She is the author of four previous novels, including Untold Story and Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Book Prize, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was named a winner of the 2003 Discover Award for Fiction and a New York Times Editors' Choice Book that same year. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company

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