Brick Lane

i reccomended this book to my mother. it was ok... not great. i didnt really like the main character because, well she had no character. no stand up ness. pretty good book nonetheless.

At 18, Nazneen is taken from her Bangladeshi village life, via an arranged marriage to a man in his 40s who is just about eking out a living in a poor part of East London (UK) in his small flat. Anecdotally, this is the fate that many Bengali (and other Muslim) girls know awaits, so she knuckles dow......more

I don't know why they do it but they do it a lot - on the title page it says Brick Lane : A Novel And there I was expecting this oblong of printed material to be Brick Lane : A New Kind of Vacuum Cleaner Anyway. Other reviews would have you believe that this book is terrifically boring, beaten only fo......more

There's a good reason that Brick Lane was short-listed for the Man Booker award, and was nominated for a whole slew of other prizes too. It is just brilliant. That doesn't mean that it is necessarily fun to read. (A 16 year old Bangladeshi girl is married off to a 40 year old guy in London, and goes......more

This is the story of Nazneen, who lives in East London’s Brick Lane. So what is so special about Brick Lane, to make it the title of a novel? Does it actually exist? And if so, where is it? Well Brick Lane certainly does exist. It is a long road in the Tower Hamlets area of East London, starting in Be......more

I thought this book was really interesting as it gave an insight into being an immigrant in England and it also gave insights into life in Bangladesh. Of course, Monica Ali has been scrutinised because she doesn't speak fluent Bangladeshi etc and I know nothing about the being an immigrant myself bu......more