Reissue with PB edition. This exciting and deeply moving debut novel follows the tumultuous life of Nazneen from her birth in a Bangladeshi village hut, to her arranged marriage to Chanu and the subsequent move to London's Tower Hamlets. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped -- yet ultimately not bound -- by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them. Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.
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MONICA ALI (Bangladesh, 1967), filla de pare anglès i mare hindú. La família Ali va emigrar a la Gran Bretanya i es va instal·lar a la petita comunitat bengalina de Bolton. Després de graduar-se en Filosofia, Política i Economia per la Universitat d?Oxford, va treballar en el món de la publicitat i no va ser fins al naixement del seu segon fill que va decidir posar-se a escriure. Abans que el llibre sortís a la venda ja havia estat seleccionada per la revista Granta com un dels millors escriptors britànics menors de quaranta anys del 2003.