413 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2003 by Doubleday.
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
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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
- Sisters -- England -- London -- Fiction.
- Sisters -- Bangladesh -- Fiction.
- Muslim women -- England -- London -- Fiction.
- Muslim women -- Bangladesh -- Fiction.