Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Brick Lane - Monica Ali At the tender age of nineteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of…
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Brick Lane - Monica Ali
At the tender age of nineteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End.
But Nazneen submits, as she must do, to Fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. Until Karim, a young radical, steps into the picture.
Against a background of escalating racial and gang conflict, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life...