413 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 2003 by Doubleday.
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
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.
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.