369 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Scribner.
3 stars
(1 review)
Monica Ali's debut novel, Brick Lane, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name.
Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.
Subjects
- Bangladeshis -- England -- Fiction.
- Women immigrants -- Fiction.
- Young women -- Fiction.
- London (England) -- Fiction.
- Bangladesh -- Fiction.