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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. Free Download [ Brick Lane ] by [ Monica Ali ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Could it take me longer to read a book I made myself read this book everyday so I could be done with it and properly hate it.Look at what the NY Review of Books said Ali succeeds brilliantly in presenting the besieged humanity of people living hard, little known lives on the margins of a rich, self absorbed society WHO IS THIS CRAZY NUT You need to read a book like Brick Lane to understand besieged humanity or what it s like to live a hard, little known life The protaganist moves around Could it take me longer to read a book I made myself read this book everyday so I could be done with it and properly hate it.Look at what the NY Review of Books said Ali succeeds brilliantly in presenting the besieged humanity of people living hard, little known lives on the margins of a rich, self absorbed society WHO IS THIS CRAZY NUT You need to read a book like ...I don t know why they do it but they do it a lot on the title page it says Brick Lane A Novel And there I was expecting this oblong of printed material to be Brick Lane A New Kind of Vacuum Cleaner Anyway Other reviews would have you believe that this book is terrifically boring, beaten only for tediousness by Some Variations in the Major Groups of Plankton of the Kamchatka Peninsula Littoral by R.K Litkynshovskaya and P.I Podgorna Bialaczczka So why did I really enjoy this novel Could I don t know why they do it but they do it a lot on the title page it says Brick Lane A Novel And there I was expecting this oblong of printed material to be Brick Lane A New Kind of Vacuum Cleaner Anyway Other reviews would have you believe that this book is terrifically boring, beaten only for tediousness by Some Variations in the Major Groups of Plankton of the Kamchatka Peninsula Littoral by R.K Litkynshovskaya and P.I Podgorna Bialaczczka So why did ...I would have to force myself to finish reading this book and quite frankly I don t want to Neither like nor care what happens to these characters.I thought this book was really interesting as it gave an insight into being an immigrant in England and it also gave insights into life in Bangladesh Of course, Monica Ali has been scrutinised because she doesn t speak fluent Bangladeshi etc and I know nothing about the being an immigrant myself but I felt like the representation she gave felt really authentic I thought the characters were brilliant They were really interesting and I felt like nearly every one of them added to the story They I thought this book was really interesting as it gave an insight into being an immigrant in England and it also gave insights into life in Bangladesh Of course, Monica Ali has been scrutinised because she doesn t speak fluent Bangladeshi etc and I know nothing about the being an immigrant myself but I felt like the representation she gave felt really authentic I thought the characters were brilliant They were really interesting and I felt like nearly every one of them added to the story They weren t just devices to the main character, in fact, I would say Nazneen was sort of like a devic...This is not what I was expecting Don t ask me what I was expecting because it is not a definable quantity and defies explanation but when I bought this book on a whim because I liked the juxtaposition of white background and colourful printed letters, this was not it.Ali has created a book for those who love the microscopic and want a very detailed picture of a very limited section of space and time Hold on you might say, this book moves from 1985 and Nazneen s arrival in England all the way u This is not what I was expecting Don t ask me ...There s a good reason that Brick Lane was short listed for the Man Booker award, and was nominated for a whole slew of other prizes too It is just brilliant That doesn t mean that it is necessarily fun to read A 16 year old Bangladeshi girl is married off to a 40 year old guy in London, and goes there to start a new life in almost poverty No, not exactly a fun topic However, the descriptions are brilliant, and the story itse...Monica Ali s prose is the literary equivalent of a curry with too many cardamom seeds.I desperately wanted to like this book Having lived the immigrant, foreigner, displaced person lifestyle for so long, I wanted this book to capture everything that it means to have lost links with my own personal history in the effort to fit into the culture that s welcomed me into it s monied bosom But Nazneen is not me She s a village girl without education andimportantly, the confidence education brings to a traveller navigating ...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 al...Nazneen is the eldest of two girls, growing up in a village in Bangladesh Her younger sister Hasina runs away to marry the young man she is in love with, and not long after that, when she is eighteen, Nazneen is married to a man twenty years older than her and sent to live with him in London.Her husband, Chanu, is kind and very talkative They live in a dingy flat on an estate where she makes friends with some other Bangladeshi women Her world is narrow and small, consisting of the flat and Br Nazneen is the eldest of two girls, growing up in a village in Bangladesh Her younger sister Hasina runs away to marry the young man she is in love with, and not long after that, when she is eighteen, Nazneen is married to a man twenty years older than her and sent to live with him in London.Her husband, Chanu, is kind and very talkative They live in a dingy flat on an estate where she makes friends with some other Bangladeshi women Her world is narrow and small, consisting of the flat and Brick ...

Brick Lane
  • English
  • 08 June 2018
  • Paperback
  • 432 pages
  • 0743243315
  • Monica Ali
  • Brick Lane