Brick Lane : A Novel (Paperback)

from jarvenpa

An excellent and satisfying book, full of detail and nuance. Where's home? What's passion? Set mostly in London it is the story of a young Muslim woman given in an arranged marriage to a man far away. What do we love? What are dreams made of, what are they for? How do we make our way through a st...

from SadieBabie

This was the first book I'd read in a while that made me feel motivated to read, and I love Ali's way with words. It reminds me a little of another book I read a few years ago called Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne, about a young girl whose life is picked up from Sri Lanka and dropped into 80's Lond...

from lukespapa

Though I have been fortunate to have traveled to London a few times the author's depiction of this London is a new one for me. It is self-contained Bangladeshi community in London's east side before and immediately after 9/11. Among the manylayered themes the novel causes the reader to confront p...

from missesK

Wildly embraced by critics, readers, and contest judges (who put it on the short-list for the 2003 Man Booker Prize), Brick Lane is indeed a rare find: a book that lives up to its hype. Monica Ali's debut novel chronicles the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi girl so sickly at birth that the midwife...

from curious_squid

I started this book 2 years ago and was not able to get into it. I started over and this time was able to easily read it. (proving my theory that some books must be read at the right time to really capture me) A girl from rural Bangladesh is married to a Bengali man 20 yrs her senior and moves...