Brick Lane

Publisher: Scribner International
Author: Monica Ali
Number of pages: 541
Price: RM18
Synopsis:
Nazneen, raised in a Bangladeshi village, carries her sense of fatalism across continents to London, where she is married off to Chanu, a man old enough to be her father. For years she keeps house, cares for her husband, and bears children. But gradually she questions whether fate controls her or whether she has a hand in her own destiny. To her own amazement, Nazneen falls in love with a young man. She discovers the complexity that comes with free choice and the depth of her attachment to her husband, her daughters, and her new world.

Profoundly humane and beautifully rendered, Brick Lane captures a world at once unimaginable and achingly familiar.