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 Brick Lane (Signed Copy) by Ali, Monica |
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Brief Description Keeping house and rearing children, Nazneen does what is expected of her. Into that fragile peace walks Karim, raising questions of longing and belonging that open her eyes to surprising truths. While Nazneen struggles in Tower Hamlets, her sister Hasina has her own dreams back home in Bangladesh. |
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Prizes Won By This Title (See the awards link at the top of the page for other prize winners) Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2003 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 and Booker Prize for Fiction 2003. |
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Author Profile Monica Ali 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. Her first novel, 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 for which the book was shortlisted. Monica Ali lives in London with her husband and two children, and is working on her next novel. |
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Monica Ali 's author page with latest news updates |
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