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Winner of the 2004 Audie Award

A 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A 2003 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction Finalist

A 2003 Man Booker Prize Finalist

A 2003 Guardian First Book Award Finalist

Winner of the 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction

A 2003 New York Times Editor’s Choice

Set in the gritty Tower Hamlets area of East London, Brick Laneis the story of Nazneen, an Asian immigrant girl and how she deals with issues of love, cultural differences and the human spirit. Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangladeshi village for a high-rise block in the East End, she finds herself cloistered and dependent on her husband. It soon becomes apparent that of the two, she is the real survivor and more able to deal with the ways of the world and the vagaries of human behavior. Through her friendship with another Asian girl, she begins to understand the unsettling ways of her new homeland.

Editorial Reviews

“It usually takes [writers] two or three books to establish their form—and yet Monica Ali already has a sense of technical assurance and an inborn generosity that cannot be learned. Brick Lane inspires confidence about the career that is to come.” —New York Times

“At once sophisticated and innocent, compassionate and entertaining.” —Los Angeles Times

“Splendid…Daring…Brilliant…Refreshing…Brick Lane is a great achievement of the subtlest storytelling.” —New Republic

“Brick Lane is as crisp and urgent as a headline…But the true pleasure of this wonderful novel comes from its timeless sense of wonder and affection for the haplessness of human nature.” —Boston Globe

“Already one of the most significant British novelists of her generation.” —Observer (London)

“Ali describes in quite an intricate way how a Muslim housewife might think and behave and what her aspirations might be. Brick Lane is a brilliant book about things that matter.” —Granta

“Brick Lane effortlessly dissolves the gendered false barrier between the social-political and domestic novel, often without ranging far from Nazneen’s cluttered flat and the pangs of her increasingly adventurous mind.” —Village Voice

“The immigrant world Ali chronicles in this penetrating, unsentimental debut has much in common with Zadie Smith’s scrappy, multicultural London…Carefully observed and assured, the novel is free of pyrotechnics, its power residing in Ali's unsparing scrutiny of its hapless, hopeful protagonists.” —Publishers Weekly

“[Monica Ali] is one of those dangerous writers who sees everything.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Author Bio: Monica Ali

Monica Ali was named one of the 20 best young British novelists under 40 by Granta. She is the author of five novels, including Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Book Prize, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was named a winner of the 2003 Discover Award for Fiction and a New York Times Editors’ Choice that same year. She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Fiction
Publisher:	Highbridge Audio	Publisher:	Highbridge Audio
CDs:	9	CDs:	1
Runtime:	11.16
ISBN:	9781665170208	ISBN:	9781665170192
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

Brick Lane

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