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Beschreibung
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world in London’s East End is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naïve and disillusioned Chanu?
As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young political activist, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos.
Monica Ali’s splendid novel is about identity, belonging, and journeys both external and internal, where the marvelous and the terrifying spiral together.
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Beiträge
Read my full review here:https://tessasworldofthings.blogspot.de/2017/03/brick-lane-by-monica-ali.htmlThis book follows Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman, who was forced into an arranged marriage with a considerably older man, Chanu. She and her husband immigrate to England, more precisely London, when she was only 18, in order to find a better and wealthier life. Chanu, being a well-educated man, is gone to work every day, leaving his wife at home. With no knowledge of the language or the culture, Nazneen has to find her way through the urban jungle.When her first son is given and then taken by fate, when her sister, who ran away for a love marriage in Bangladesh, tells her about her struggles, Nazneen relies on her fate to show her the right path. She gives birth to two daughters, their oldest turning into a modern, English teenager, but Chanu can only think of going back to Bangladesh, because there he will be treated with more respect than by the English. In order to raise enough money for their trip back home, Chanu gets Nazneen a job as a seamstress. While working she meets Karim, a fellow Bangladeshi, who, for the first time in her life, makes her realize how passion and love can feel like. At this point Nazneen has to decide: Will she stand by and let fate decide how her life will go on, or will she take action.One of this books comments, you know, the quotes from newspapers on the book covers and such, says (from Observer) "richly complex characters". There are no richly complex characters. Nazneen doesn't do anything. She's incredibly unhappy with her life, but she just doesn't feel like doing anything against it, because apparently she's fine with it. Since her fate decided. This book of 492 pages revolves around a character, that has no individual thought, that doesn't take action, that is entirely passive and repeats stories about her childhood that probably are supposed to have some deeper, more thoughtful meaning, but are entirely lost on me. Or maybe they don't and Ali just wanted to fill a few pages. Much more interesting is Nazneen's sister Hasina, you know, the one who ran away to get married because she was in love, the one who takes action, struggling and fighting... She writes letters to Nazneen, and when you read the book, you read the letters. For reasons I can't decipher, Ali decided to write these letters in ridiculously broken English. One, I doubt that Hasina would write in English to her sister, but rather use her native tongue, so Two, I don't think that Hasina is incapable of speaking her own language. So, why on earth would Ali represent her in such a horrible way? She's the only character that's sort of raising some fascination, and calling anything in this book fascinating would be a complete overstatement. Chanu, one of two men in this book, is the most annoying man I've ever read about. Such a talker, jeez! And of course no matter what he didn't accomplish, it's always somebody else's fault. It might be because he never walks the talk, but hey, just guessing here.I didn't like this book. At all. It took me incredibly long to reach the last fifty pages or so, when finally something is happening and Nazneen finally does something, but then I already trudged through the rest of the 380 pages..
Beschreibung
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world in London’s East End is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naïve and disillusioned Chanu?
As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young political activist, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos.
Monica Ali’s splendid novel is about identity, belonging, and journeys both external and internal, where the marvelous and the terrifying spiral together.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Read my full review here:https://tessasworldofthings.blogspot.de/2017/03/brick-lane-by-monica-ali.htmlThis book follows Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman, who was forced into an arranged marriage with a considerably older man, Chanu. She and her husband immigrate to England, more precisely London, when she was only 18, in order to find a better and wealthier life. Chanu, being a well-educated man, is gone to work every day, leaving his wife at home. With no knowledge of the language or the culture, Nazneen has to find her way through the urban jungle.When her first son is given and then taken by fate, when her sister, who ran away for a love marriage in Bangladesh, tells her about her struggles, Nazneen relies on her fate to show her the right path. She gives birth to two daughters, their oldest turning into a modern, English teenager, but Chanu can only think of going back to Bangladesh, because there he will be treated with more respect than by the English. In order to raise enough money for their trip back home, Chanu gets Nazneen a job as a seamstress. While working she meets Karim, a fellow Bangladeshi, who, for the first time in her life, makes her realize how passion and love can feel like. At this point Nazneen has to decide: Will she stand by and let fate decide how her life will go on, or will she take action.One of this books comments, you know, the quotes from newspapers on the book covers and such, says (from Observer) "richly complex characters". There are no richly complex characters. Nazneen doesn't do anything. She's incredibly unhappy with her life, but she just doesn't feel like doing anything against it, because apparently she's fine with it. Since her fate decided. This book of 492 pages revolves around a character, that has no individual thought, that doesn't take action, that is entirely passive and repeats stories about her childhood that probably are supposed to have some deeper, more thoughtful meaning, but are entirely lost on me. Or maybe they don't and Ali just wanted to fill a few pages. Much more interesting is Nazneen's sister Hasina, you know, the one who ran away to get married because she was in love, the one who takes action, struggling and fighting... She writes letters to Nazneen, and when you read the book, you read the letters. For reasons I can't decipher, Ali decided to write these letters in ridiculously broken English. One, I doubt that Hasina would write in English to her sister, but rather use her native tongue, so Two, I don't think that Hasina is incapable of speaking her own language. So, why on earth would Ali represent her in such a horrible way? She's the only character that's sort of raising some fascination, and calling anything in this book fascinating would be a complete overstatement. Chanu, one of two men in this book, is the most annoying man I've ever read about. Such a talker, jeez! And of course no matter what he didn't accomplish, it's always somebody else's fault. It might be because he never walks the talk, but hey, just guessing here.I didn't like this book. At all. It took me incredibly long to reach the last fifty pages or so, when finally something is happening and Nazneen finally does something, but then I already trudged through the rest of the 380 pages..