![]() ![]() ![]() The story is crossed by the surge of radical islamism, and it shows how in UK this could be possible in the apprently better integrated second generation of Moslem bangladeshis.īrick Lane - named after Brick Lane, a street at the heart of London's Bangladeshi community - follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to Tower Hamlets in London at the age of 18 - her English consisting of "sorry" and "thank you" - to marry an older man, Chanu, described by The Observer as "one of the novel's foremost miracles: twice her age, with a face like a frog, a tendency to quote Hume and the boundless doomed optimism of the self-improvement junkie, he is both exasperating and, to the reader at least, enormously loveable." Geraldine Bedell wrote in The Observer that the "most vivid image of the marriage is of her cutting her husband's corns, a task she seems required to perform with dreadful regularity. Brick Lane is an enjoyable book the story of Nazneen (Nazanine), born and grown up in Bangladesh, is sold by her father to a Bangladeshi man living in London UK (Brick Lane) as a spouse. Brick Lane is a nice book about immigration in London UK from the viewpoint of the bangladeshi community. Monica Ali is a woman writer from Bangladesh. ![]()
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