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Brick Lane
Brick Lane
hardback
Published:
2 June, 2003
Description
Prizes
Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2003 and Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780385604840 |
| ISBN10 | 038560484X |
| Number Of Pages | 416 |
| Item Weight | 761 g |
| Product Dimensions | 160 x 42 x 234 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Doubleday |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First |
Media Reviews
Set in Tower Hamlets, this contemporary novel of the life of an Asian immigrant girl draws the reader into a highly affecting world of love, fate and cultural conflict. Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is 20 years older. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows no English, and is forced to depend on her husband. But unlike him she is practical and wise, and befriends a fellow Asian girl Razia, who helps her understand the strange ways of her adopted home. A resonant drama from a fierce new literary talent; Monica Ali is a name to watch.
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Author's Bio
Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She is one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists of the decade, Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 British Book Awards and has been nominated for most of the major literary prizes in Britain. BRICK LANE was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Internationally there has been similar recognition including, in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times 'First Fiction' Prize where the book was shortlisted. Monica Ali lives in London with her husband and two children.