Love Marriage

ALI, MONICA

Hachette

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Brick Lane

Contemporary

Transworld Pub

Alentejo Blue

DOUBLEDAY

In the Kitchen

Literary

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling author of Brick Lane, her long-awaited second novel, a stunning story about a man in crisis.Just as she did inBrick Lane, Monica Ali again brings read- ers into a rich and fascinating London subculture, this time the intoxicating world of chefs and kitchen denizen from every culture and class in London.Surrounded by the fading glory of the Imperial Hotel, embattled Executive Chef Gabriel Lightfoot tries to maintain his culinary integrity in the hotel’s restaurant, while manag- ing an unruly but talented group of immigrant cooks. His goal is to please the management of the hotel, and to move on to ownership of his own place. But when the dead body of a Ukrainian porter is discovered in the restaurant cellar, the tenuous balance in Gabe’s life begins to shift. Adding to his stress, Gabe’s father is diagnosed with cancer, his girlfriend starts talking about a new level in their relationship, and the investors in his new business are monitoring his every move. Enter Lena, an eerily attractive young woman mysteriously tied to the death of the porter. Under her spell, Gabe makes a decision the consequences of which irrevocably change the course of the life he knows—and the future he thought he wanted. Ali, named one of the twenty best young British writers by Granta, was nominated for the Booker and Los Angeles Times book prizes and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has written an absolutely extraordinary novel that will delight readers of Brick Lane and further establish her as one of Britain’s most talented and original voices.

In The Kitchen

Untold Story

Women's Fiction

Transworld Publishers, Ltd

This exciting and deeply moving debut novel follows the tumultuous life of nazneen from her birth in a bangladeshi village hut, to her arranged marriage to chanu and the subsequent move to london's tower hamletsnazneen'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 house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her yet nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib 'i didn't ask to be born here,' say shahana, with regular finalityinto that fragile peace walks karim he sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze - but what she sees, in the end, comes as a suprise to them bothwhile nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother's ghost, her sister hasina, back in bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a 'love marriage', then fleeing her violent husband woven through the novel, hasina's letters from dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity shaped - yet ultimately not bound - by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for thembeautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, brick lane establishes monica ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction

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<p>Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband. But unlike him she is practical and wise, and befriends a fellow Asian girl Razia, who helps her understand the strange ways of her adopted new British home. Nazneen keeps in touch with her sister Hasina back in the village. But the rebellious Hasina has kicked against cultural tradition and run off in a 'love marriage' with the man of her dreams. When he suddenly turns violent, she is forced into the degrading job of garment girl in a cloth factory. Confined in her flat by tradition and family duty, Nazneen also sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings - until the radical Karim steps unexpectedly into her life. On a background of racial conflict and tension, they embark on a love affair that forces Nazneen finally to take control of her fate. Strikingly imagined, gracious and funny, this novel is at once epic and intimate. Exploring the role of Fate in our lives - those who accept it; those who defy it - it traces the extraordinary transformation of an Asian girl, from cautious and shy to bold and dignified woman.</p>

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