Brick Lane
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Narrated by:
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Elizabeth Sastre
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By:
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Monica Ali
About this listen
While Nanzeen journeys along her path of self-realization, her sister, Hasina, rushes headlong at her life. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped, yet not bound, by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream, and live, beyond the rules prescribed for them.
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Critic reviews
- Audie Award Winner, Fiction (Abridged), 2004
"A humanely forgiving story about love...Brick Lane may be Ali's first novel, but it is written with a wisdom and skill that few other authors attain in a lifetime." (Sunday Times [London])
"Carefully observed and assured...its power residing in Ali's unsparing scrutiny of its hapless, hopeful protagonists." (Publishers Weekly)
"A splendid novel." (Atlantic Monthly)
"A sharp-witted tale...In Ali's subtle narration, Nazneen's mixture of traditionalism and adaptability, of acceptance and restlessness, emerges as a quiet strength." (The New Yorker)
What listeners say about Brick Lane
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Bizgen
- 14-01-17
Interesting view of Bangladeshi life in inhospitable London..
Great listen. A very interesting insight into the everyday life of a Bangladeshi woman brought to make a life in the East End of London. Tragic and funny by turns, with several threads cleverly interwoven, I found myself fascinated by this story, not the sort of tales I normally enjoy.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-03-25
Excellent immigrant tale
the narrator is absolutely brilliant. Wonderful Bengali accent, every character has a different voice and she reads ahead in the text and picks up on all the cues. Very expressive and great characterisation of every person in the story. every character is drawn with great detail and they are totally believable real people rather than just book characters.
I found the story very engrossing - following the life of a couple of immigrants from Bengal and their family. Half of the book is told from the point of view of a sister, Hasina, who is left behind in India, the other half from the viewpoint of the other sister, Nasreen, who marries a man living in England.
Halfway through the book, the plot takes an unlikely twist when Nasreen suddenly begins an affair with a young Bengali man. There is no description or mention of exactly how the affair begins; 1 minute she's taking in sewing from him, the next minute they're suddenly in bed together with no preliminary whatsoever. Apart from that the story is excellent. The reader is given a real taste of the racial tensions in the UK between whites and Bengalis.
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- Ian Chung
- 06-03-20
Captivating narration, but incomplete
I bought this audiobook to help with reading the book, so I was both confused and disappointed to see huge chunks of the original text missing in the recording. Narration is excellent though.
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