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基本信息·出版社：Simon + Schuster Inc.
·页码：541 页
·出版日期：2003年09月
·ISBN：074326066X
·条形码：9780743260664
·版本：Papercover
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·外文书名：砖石小径
内容简介 The literary debut of a huge storytelling talent
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 作者简介 MONICA ALI was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She lives in London with her husband and two small children. She is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2003.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 媒体推荐 Observer '... Surely,
Brick Lane can't be that good. Actually, it's better.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Spectator 'In years to come,
Brick Lane may be one of the Nation's Favourite Books.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Daily Telegraph 'Luminous ... uplifting ... important.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sunday Times 'Written with the wisdom and skill few authors attain in a lifetime.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sunday Telegraph 'As ambitious in scale as Smith's
White Teeth ... a wonderful debut.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. New Statesman 'What makes this novel is its rich realism ... much in common with the early V.S. Naipaul.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Time Out 'What's so remarkable about BRICK LANE is its assurance: the writing is laudably unfussy, the tone incredibly tender.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Literary Review 'Ali's mastery of her material is impressive ... as a first novel, it is exceptional.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 编辑推荐 Amazon.co.uk Review With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit. The pre-publicity hype about
Brick Lane was precisely the kind to set alarm bells ringing (we've heard it so often before), but, for once, the excitement is fully justified: Monica Ali's debut novel demonstrates that there is a new voice in modern fiction to be reckoned with.
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with a man considerably older than her--a man whose expectations of life are so low that misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in a high-rise block in the East End of London. Because she speaks no English, she is obliged to depend totally on her husband. But it becomes apparent that, of the two, she is the real survivor: more able to deal with the ways of the world, and a better judge of the vagaries of human behaviour. She makes friends with another Asian girl, Razia, who is the conduit to her understanding of the unsettling ways of her new homeland.
This is a novel of genuine insight, with the kind of characterisation that reminds the reader at every turn just what the novel form is capable of. Every character (Nazneen, her disappointed husband and her resourceful friend Razia) is drawn with the complexity that can really only be found in the novel these days. In some ways, the reader is given the same all-encompassing experience as in a Dickens novel: humour and tragedy rub shoulders in a narrative that inexorably grips the reader. Whether or not Monica Ali can follow up this achievement is a question for the future; it's enough to say right now that Brick Lane is an essential read for anyone interested in current British fiction. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
