Brick Lane

by Monica Ali
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The film tie-in of one of the novels of the decade.

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At the tender age of nineteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance.But Nazneen submits, as she must do, to Fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until Karim, a young radical, steps into the picture.Against a background of escalating racial and gang conflict, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life...

Editorial Reviews

"'Ali has an impressive command of her story, but her real gift is in the richness of the lives she has created, populating Nazneen's London with a very entertaining cast of comic characters'" - The Times

"'I was totally gripped by Brick Lane. A brilliant evocation of sensuality which might occur anywhere'" - Daily Telegraph

"'Written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime'" - The Sunday Times

"'Comedy and poignancy abound...Brick Lane is a wonderful debut'" - Sunday Telegraph

"'Brick Lane has everything: richly complex characters, a gripping story and it's funny too'" - Observer

"'Monica Ali brings humour, grace and the special qualities of the best of Asian fiction to a narrative concerned with acceptance and denial...Wry and intelligent, subtle and graceful in its mix of formal prose, blackly despairing humour and fabulous characterization, this is a rich human novel'" - Irish Times

"'The kind of novel that surprises one with its depth and dash; it is a novel that will last'" - Guardian

"'A wonderful first novel. Ali's writing is stunning, almost poetic at times, and she has a beautifully inventive turn of phrase'" - Mail on Sunday

"'This highly evolved, accomplished book is a reminder of how exhilarating novels can be: it opened up a world whose contours I could recognize, but which I needed Monica Ali to make me understand'" - Observer

"'So uplifting as well as so important'" - Daily Telegraph

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