Cover of Brick Lane

Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

2003 · adult

Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

Monica Ali's debut novel, Brick Lane, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.

Set in

  • Brick Lane · United Kingdom
    Brick Lane (East End)
    ★ primary

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