Brick Lane: A Novel (edit title)

Amanda approved 94% of Timothy Gray’s request to combine 17 books, including Brick Lane: A Novel, Friday, October 30 2009. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Brick Lane: A Novel Friday, October 23 2009.

• Added an award: Man Booker Prize
• Added year of an award: Man Booker Prize 2003
• Checked finalist field of an award: Man Booker Prize

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 17 books, including Brick Lane: A Novel, Friday, October 23 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Brick Lane: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 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 na‹ve 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 radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos. Monica Ali's splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvellous and the terrifying spiral together.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Brick Lane: A Novel Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Monica Ali: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Brick Lane: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazucen's life began-began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly-her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly.