Synopses & Reviews
Set in the gritty Tower Hamlets area of East London, Brick Laneis the story of Nazneen, an Asian immigrant girl and how she deals with issues of love, cultural differences and the human spirit. Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangladeshi village for a high-rise block in the East End, she finds herself cloistered and dependent on her husband. It soon becomes apparent that of the two, she is the real survivor and more able to deal with the ways of the world and the vagaries of human behavior. Through her friendship with another Asian girl, she begins to understand the unsettling ways of her new homeland.
Synopsis
Vivid, deeply moving, and beautifully rendered, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. Monica Ali is the only unpublished writer in the prestigious, once-in-a-decade Granta collection of the twenty best young British writers.
About the Author
ELIZABETH SASTRE has appeared in regional theater. She has a recurring role on As the World Turns and guest starred on Law and Order.MONICA ALI was born in Dhaka in Bangladesh. Her family moved to England in 1971 when she was 3 years old. She was educated at Oxford and lives in London.