Books
by Monica Ali
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Brick Lane |
Bangladeshi Nazneen's arranged marriage brings her to Tower Hamlets. Her initial bewilderment in the face of incomprehensible facts and personalities - including her hopeless but endearing 'educated type' husband - is gradually honed through tragedy, motherhood and illicit love to give her sufficient self-confidence to judge for herself, until....Ali writes with delicious wit and wisdom - and discovering what it's like to be an immigrant is only one of the pleasures of this lovely book.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 20 September 2003) |
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