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Title: Brick Lane
Author: Monica Ali
Narrator: Ayesha Dharker
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-05
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze, but what she sees, in the end, comes as a suprise to them both.
While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother's ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a "love marriage", then fleeing her violent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped, yet ultimately not bound, by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them.
Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.
Critic Reviews:
"Written with the wisdom and skill few authors attain in a lifetime." (Sunday Times)
"As ambitious in scale as Smith's White Teeth....A wonderful debut." (Sunday Telegraph)
"What's so remarkable about Brick Lane is its assurance: the writing is laudably unfussy, the tone incredibly tender." (Time Out)
Members Reviews:
It's a great story to give you some insight on another woman's ...
I read this book freshman or sophomore year in college, and I remember that while I didn't always understand what the plot was detailing (blame my lack of historical knowledge), I did always root for the main character to come into her own and find her independence and sense of self. The characters, both male and female, that she comes into contact with are memorable, from her husband to the elderly userer to the young activist. It's a great story to give you some insight on another woman's struggle in a different culture and a different land in our time
Well written book. It was assigned for reading in ...
Well written book. It was assigned for reading in my class. I probably didn't have to read the whole thing, but it was quite interesting.
Young woman grows into maturity
While this novel tells the tale of a young woman from Bangaladesh brought to London through an arranged marriage, at some level it could be a story of any woman. Monica Ali's poignant selection of events in the life of the featured character as compared to the story of her sister who continues to live in Bangladesh, could be seen as a commentary on the potentially suffocating life of an Islamic woman in an arranged marriage. But instead, both the featured character's and her sister's transformation through the years of learning to live with a marriage partner and raising young children, into confident, self-aware, mature women has a universal quality. A side benefit in this novel is the introspective description of life in Brick Lane, a street in London known to London residents and tourists for its Indian restaurants.
Overall, a very good novel
It was really interesting to read about a different culture and experiences that are so unfamiliar to me. We see the main character, Nazneen, journey from a Bangladeshi village to London at the age of 18, and watch her adapt to a much different kind of life.
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Title: Brick Lane
Author: Monica Ali
Narrator: Ayesha Dharker
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-05
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze, but what she sees, in the end, comes as a suprise to them both.
While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother's ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a "love marriage", then fleeing her violent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped, yet ultimately not bound, by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them.
Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.
Critic Reviews:
"Written with the wisdom and skill few authors attain in a lifetime." (Sunday Times)
"As ambitious in scale as Smith's White Teeth....A wonderful debut." (Sunday Telegraph)
"What's so remarkable about Brick Lane is its assurance: the writing is laudably unfussy, the tone incredibly tender." (Time Out)
Members Reviews:
It's a great story to give you some insight on another woman's ...
I read this book freshman or sophomore year in college, and I remember that while I didn't always understand what the plot was detailing (blame my lack of historical knowledge), I did always root for the main character to come into her own and find her independence and sense of self. The characters, both male and female, that she comes into contact with are memorable, from her husband to the elderly userer to the young activist. It's a great story to give you some insight on another woman's struggle in a different culture and a different land in our time
Well written book. It was assigned for reading in ...
Well written book. It was assigned for reading in my class. I probably didn't have to read the whole thing, but it was quite interesting.
Young woman grows into maturity
While this novel tells the tale of a young woman from Bangaladesh brought to London through an arranged marriage, at some level it could be a story of any woman. Monica Ali's poignant selection of events in the life of the featured character as compared to the story of her sister who continues to live in Bangladesh, could be seen as a commentary on the potentially suffocating life of an Islamic woman in an arranged marriage. But instead, both the featured character's and her sister's transformation through the years of learning to live with a marriage partner and raising young children, into confident, self-aware, mature women has a universal quality. A side benefit in this novel is the introspective description of life in Brick Lane, a street in London known to London residents and tourists for its Indian restaurants.
Overall, a very good novel
It was really interesting to read about a different culture and experiences that are so unfamiliar to me. We see the main character, Nazneen, journey from a Bangladeshi village to London at the age of 18, and watch her adapt to a much different kind of life.