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Original Title:	Brick Lane
ISBN:	0743243315 (ISBN13: 9780743243315)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2003), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2004), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2003), Orwell Prize Nominee (2004), Audie Award for Fiction, Abridged (2004) Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Fiction (2004)

Brick Lane

Monica Ali

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.41 | 27336 Users | 1824 Reviews

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A captivating read from a debut novelist, Brick Lane brings the immigrant milieu of East London to vibrant life. With great poignancy, Ali illuminates a foreign world; her well-developed characters pull readers along on a deeply psychological, almost spiritual journey. Through the eyes of two Bangladeshi sisters—the plain Nazneen and the prettier Hasina—we see the divergent paths of the contemporary descendants of an ancient culture. Hasina elopes to a "love marriage," and young Nazneen, in an arranged marriage, is pledged to a much older man living in London. Ali's skillful narrative focuses on Nazneen's stifling life with her ineffectual husband, who keeps her imprisoned in a city housing project filled with immigrants in varying degrees of assimilation. But Ali reveals a bittersweet tension between the "two kinds of love" Nazneen and her sister experience—that which begins full and overflowing, only to slowly dissipate, and another which emerges like a surprise, growing unexpectedly over years of faithful commitment. Both of these loves have their own pitfalls: Hasina's passionate romance crumbles into domestic violence, and Nazneen's marriage never quite reaches a state of wedded bliss. Though comparisons have drawn between Ali and Zadie Smith, a better comparison might be made between this talented newcomer and the work of Amy Tan, who so deftly portrays the immigrant experience with empathy and joy.

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Title	:	Brick Lane
Author	:	Monica Ali
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 2004 by Scribner (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India

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Ratings: 3.41 From 27336 Users | 1824 Reviews

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One of the most awful books I have ever read. Ignoring the outwardly prejudiced attitude towards Sylhetis by a Dhaka-born writer, Ali chose to further insult the protagonist's culture by allowing the Sylheti community (within the book) to ostensibly reveal these negative stereotypes creating a sense of collective self-hatred. Another plot hole I found was the "broken English" within her sister's letters - the protagonist moved to England and can only say two words in English but her sister, who

What I liked most about this book was the view it offered into a whole other culture. I have been to Brick Lane and Tower Hamlets many times, and have actually spent some months in Bangladesh, but I obviously dont have any real understanding what it is to be part of the Bangladeshi community, or indeed an immigrant to these shores. The main strength of this book for me, was bringing that world alive.Spanning the eighties to the start of the 21st century (building up, inevitably, to 9/11) this

I've never felt much compulsion to read Brick Lane but found it on a recent second-hand shop search and picked it up cheap. Widely praised on publication I can understand why but it didn't do much for me. This may be as I read it while flying from Costa Rica to New Zealand (finishing it in LAX) so brain wasn't entirely working at full power. I found it difficult to keep my concentration on the story.Immigration and alienation and a clash of cultures pervade as a young bride moves to England from

Rating: 2* of fiveA long succession of standard tropes, cliched dialogue, and stock characters made somehow new and fresh by the fact that they're all of Indian descent.Frankly, I found it lazy and felt the decent author behind the blandness of the book should be given a "D"--not passing, not failing, not much of anything at all. I'll pass on this one's career. Returned to my facility's library shelves, with a slight twinge of guilt for not putting it in the little free library just down the

This was a surprisingly interesting read. Before starting I read a few reviews and they were mostly bad. They were critical about the characters & plot etc. So I started without much hope, thinking I would just read it haphazardly.... But as I said, it was very interesting. Then I realised that the first few reviews were from way back & times have changed, people are more aware of other cultures, of the immigrant experiences. Also new ways of writing & expressions have come up.....I

A rich, detailed novel with an interesting range of varied and fully-developed characters. If I found myself wishing the protagonist was less passive, I at least understood exactly why she was the way she was, which is more than I've managed with some books.Covering an ambitious span of years - from Nazneen's youth in Bangladesh to early middle-age in the East End of London - Ali's style is absorbing enough that it never feels rushed. The only thing stopping me giving this a 5 is that I felt

This book left me with quite mixed feelings to be honest. I wanted to love it, its been compared to White Teeth by Zadie Smith which is one of my all time faves, but I thought it lacked the vibrancy and liveliness of White Teeth, despite both of them portraying the lives of immigrants in London..Brick Lane follows Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London for an arranged marriage. I think the slowness of the book comes from the passivity of Nazneen, as she doesnt really do much for much