Brick Lane

Brick Lane

EnglishEbook
Ali, Monica
Scribner
EAN: 9780743249713
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A book you wont 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 thats multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted. Curtis Sittenfeld, author of SisterlandAfter 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 nave 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 Alis splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvelous and the terrifying spiral together.
EAN 9780743249713
ISBN 0743249712
Binding Ebook
Publisher Scribner
Publication date September 29, 2003
Pages 384
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Ali, Monica