Brick LaneBrick Lane by Monica Ali
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

(**alert spoiler**) The protagonist is Nazneen, a young woman from Bangladesh who is forced to get married to a man twenty years older than her. She moves to London, where he lives. We can see the way of life of immigrants, women specially, in a great European city. At the beginning, Nazneeen is always at home and she never goes to anyplace far from her neighbourhood. When she wants to learn to speak English, her husband tells her that she doesn’t need it. Her life changes when her daughters grow and they are teenagers more worried about modern music and cloths than religion or their homeland. On the one hand, Nazneen must obey to her husband, but, on the other hand, she wants the happiness for their daughters.
Frequently, she receives letters from her sister in Bangladesh, and she longs her homeland. Should the family return to Bangladesh? She’s not sure. Time passes and she meets other people, and other women with a very different ways of life. As a result of this, she begins to make herself questions about her own life and the life of her daughters. At the end of the book, the husband goes back to Bangladesh, but the rest of the family stays in London. Nazneen has learnt that she is the owner of her own life.


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