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    Brick Lane

    Written by Monica Ali

    Narrated by Meera Syal

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    About this audiobook

    Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with an older man and misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in a high-rise block in the East End of London. Because she speaks no English, she is obliged to depend totally on her husband. But it becomes apparent that, of the two, she is the real survivor...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateJan 11, 2012
    ISBN9781471211423
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    Brick Lane
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    Monica Ali

    Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She was named one of the 20 best young British novelists under 40 by Granta. She is the author of four previous novels, including Untold Story and 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 Book that same year. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

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    • 5/5
      Really enjoyable, great characters depicted with affection and subtlety that evolved and grew.