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Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - children and old men, expatriates of all ages, tourists and locals.For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to ...Show more
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from wh ...Show more
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
At the tender age of nineteen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles t ...Show more
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted." --Cur ...Show more
Brick Lane - OP by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping hou ...Show more
In The Kitchen by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity and his sanity are under constant challenge from an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is planning a new venture. Despite the p ...Show more
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME, READ BY MEERA SYAL TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKTHE NEW INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF BRICK LANE_____________________________________'Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining' ...Show more
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Category: Fiction
The first new novel in a decade from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BRICK LANE. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin ...Show more