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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.
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Ehe, Literature, Bangladeschische Einwanderin, Muslimin, Fiction, Muslim women, Sisters, Young women, Bangladeshis, Women immigrants, Selbsta ndigkeit, Large type books, Arranged marriage, Adultery, New York Times reviewed, London (england), fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Sisters, fiction, Young women, fiction, Bangladesh, fiction, Marriage, fiction, Bangladeshis--england--fiction, Women immigrants--fiction, Young women--fiction, Pr6101.l45 b75 2004, 823.92Places
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"An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazucen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly."
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