6/5/2023 0 Comments Brick lane book![]() ![]() There is a series of interludes, provided by touching, passionate (and hardly literate) letters from Nazneen's sister Hasima who is battling with life in Bangladesh. What is not felt, thought or seen by Nazneen remains unsaid. We don't get any authorial comment, any insight into somebody else's mind, we don't look at the world through anybody else's eyes. ![]() The story of Nazneen's life is told exclusively from her own perspective. ![]() Is that it? Yes, more or less that is it. The book tells the story of Nazneen, apparently stillborn in Bangladesh village in 1967 up to 2001 when she is a 34 year old mother, wife, lover and worker in London. Summary: Themes of cultural alienation, immigrant experience and personal growth dominate the book which can be also read just as a psychological story of a woman from her birth in a Bangladeshi village to 34 years later when she is a mother, wife, lover and worker in London's Tower Hamlets. ![]()
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