Monica Ali
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Brick Lane: A Novel
Monica Ali
- 2004 Kiriyama-Fiction finalist
- 2003 Booker shortlist
- 2003 LATimes–1st Fiction finalist
- 2003 NBCC–Fiction finalist
- Score: 24.54
Monica Ali’s gorgeous first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage. Already hailed by the London Observer as “one of the most significant British novelists of her generation,” Ali has written a stunningly accomplished debut about one outsider’s quest to find her voice.
Vivid, profoundly humane, and beautifully rendered, Brick Lane captures a world at once unimaginable and achingly familiar. And it establishes Monica Ali as a thrilling new voice in fiction. As Kirkus Reviews said, “She is one of those dangerous writers who see everything.”
