Brick lane / Monica Ali
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TextPublication details: New York : Scribner, c2003. Description: 415 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780743243315DDC classification: 823 ALI
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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English Fiction
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Villa College QI Campus | Villa College Library | 823 ALI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5838 |
Summary
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 neighbour Mrs Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naive 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 marvelous and the terrifying spiral together
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