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Brick lane : a novel / Monica Ali.

Ali, Monica, 1967- (author.).

Summary:

Nanzeen, married off to an older man, moves from her Bangladeshi village to live with him in London in the 1980s and 1990s, where she raises a family, learns to love her husband, and comes to a realization that she has a voice in her own life.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780743249713
  • ISBN: 0743249712
  • ISBN: 1565118294
  • ISBN: 9781565118294
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2004.

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Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Bangladeshis > England > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
Bangladesh > Fiction.
Bangladeshis > Angleterre > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Immigrantes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Jeunes femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION > General.
Bangladeshis.
Women immigrants.
Young women.
Bangladesh.
England.
England > London.
Genre: Fiction.

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Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She was named one of the 20 best young British novelists under 40 by Granta. She is the author of four previous novels, including Untold Story and Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Book Prize, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was named a winner of the 2003 Discover Award for Fiction and a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book that same year. She lives in London with her husband and two children.


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