Brick Lane
by Ali, Monica
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 038560484X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385604840
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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Synopsis
After 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 Ali's splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvellous and the terrifying spiral together.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94323
- Title
- Brick Lane
- Author
- Ali, Monica
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- ISBN 10
- 038560484X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385604840
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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