Brick Lane

About this book

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

  • 823.92
  • adultery
  • arranged marriage
  • bangladeschische einwanderin
  • bangladesh, fiction
  • bangladeshis
  • bangladeshis--england--fiction
  • ehe
  • fiction
  • fiction, coming of age
  • large type books
  • literature
  • london (england), fiction
  • marriage, fiction
  • muslimin
  • muslim women
  • new york times reviewed
  • pr6101.l45 b75 2004
  • selbsta ndigkeit
  • sisters
  • sisters, fiction
  • women immigrants
  • women immigrants--fiction
  • young women
  • young women, fiction
  • young women--fiction