Brick Lane
2003 Discover Award Winner, Fiction
2003 Discover Award Winner, Fiction
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780743243315
Publish date: 25-05-2004
Publisher: Scribner
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
India,
Asia,
Bangladesh,
Fiction
3/4/2011 Re-read via the filmTannishtha Chatterjee ... Nazneen Ahmed Satish Kaushik ... Chanu Ahmed Christopher Simpson ... Karim Naeema Begum ... Rukshana 'Shahna' Ahmed Lana Rahman ... Bibi Ahmedtrailer here
Brick Lane is an interesting book. The central character, Nazneen is totally passive, almost too passive. It should be noted, however, that Monica Ali does a good job of setting up that passivity. From the very first page of the book, the reader is shown and told that Nazneen is passive, that sh...
Well written look at cultures clashing.
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