Brick lane
a novel
1st Scribner ed.
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Word Count
92,250 words, Guess
Page Count
369 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3683305M
- ISBN-100743243307
- OCLC Control Number51810937
- OCLC Control Number55697300
- Library of Congress Control Number2003042795
and 2 more
- LibraryThing8218
- Goodreads536972
Classifications
- DDC823/.92
- LCCPR6101.L45 B75 2003
Description
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.
Description
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.
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Genres
- Fiction.
Other Editions
- Brick lane: a novel
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