Brick Lane: A Novel - Softcover

Los Angeles Times At once sophisticated and innocent, compassionate and entertaining.

Anne Tyler I was bowled over by Monica Ali's Brick Lane.

The New Republic Splendid....Daring....Brilliant....Refreshing....Brick Lane is a great achievement of the subtlest storytelling.

The Boston Globe Brick Lane is as crisp and urgent as a headline....But the true pleasure of this wonderful novel comes from its timeless sense of wonder and affection for the haplessness of human nature.

Chicago Star Tribune Beautiful and intensely readable.

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. A first novel. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.