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Book Review of Brick Lane

Brick Lane
Brick Lane
Author: Monica Ali
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize in the USA), this novel is a poignant and right-on reflection of the difficulty of acclimating into a new society and culture. After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man 20 years older, Nazneen is taken to London, after having left her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born.