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Monica Ali's Brick Lane, shortlisted for Booker Prize follows the life of Nazneen, a twenty-year old "unspoilt girl from the village", who is married off to a 40-year old Chanu "who had a face like a frog." An immensely multilayered novel, Brick Lane expands far beyond the walls of Nazneen's small flat in Brick Lane, the Bangladeshi enclave in London.
Ali has been hailed by critics for her fine descriptive skills, adept ability to combine humor and pathos, and her creation of a truly global novel. Though set in today's multicultural London, fraught with race riots, post 9/11 hate crimes, drugs, gangs, and Islamic fundamentalism, Brick Lane also paints portraits of Nazneen's rural upbringing in Bangladesh as well as the globalized Bangladesh of today, as catalogued by Nazneen's sister Hasina's letters discussing "Brittany Spears". Although this praise is well-deserved, Zadie Smith's White Teeth has already awoken the world to London's multicultural populations and Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses catalogued imaginary "Brickhall's" racial riots years ago.
However, what is...
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