Brick Lane

Informationen zum Autor Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She is one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists of the decade, Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 British Book Awards and has been nominated for most of the major literary prizes in Britain. BRICK LANE was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Internationally there has been similar recognition including, in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times 'First Fiction' Prize where the book was shortlisted. Monica Ali lives in London with her husband and two children. Klappentext 'Focusing on a cross-section of the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets! a community all but invisible to the rest of London! Ali's novel is warm! shrewd! startling! and hugely readable; the sort of book you race through greedily.' OBSERVER Zusammenfassung 'Focusing on a cross-section of the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets! a community all but invisible to the rest of London! Ali's novel is warm! shrewd! startling! and hugely readable; the sort of book you race through greedily.' OBSERVER

Product details

• Authors: Monica Ali
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 0
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9780552151597
• ISBN: 978-0-552-15159-7
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 177 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Bantam Paperbacks; Bantam Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Women, Bangladesh, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction