TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali,Monica
TI  - Brick lane
SN  - 0552771155
AV  - PR6101.L45 B75 2004
U1  - 823.92 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Black Swan
KW  - Young women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Bangladeshis
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - London (England)
N1  - Originally published: London : Doubleday, 2003
N2  - At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat tand even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence--and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance. But Nazneen submits, as she must, to fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until she becomes aware of a young radical, Karim
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