Salaam Brick Lane

Author : Tarquin Hall
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719565564
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salaam Brick Lane written by Tarquin Hall and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on London's Brick Lane. A grimy skylight provided the only window on their new world: a filthy, noisy street where drug dealers and prostitutes peddled their wares and tramps urinated on the pavements. At night, traffic lights lit up the ceiling and police sirens wailed into the early hours. Yet, as Hall got to know Brick Lane, he discovered beneath its unlovely surface an inner world where immigrants and asylum seekers struggle to better themselves and dream of escape. Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of discovery by an outsider in his own native city. It offers an explicit glimpse of the underbelly of London's most infamous quarter, the real-life world of Monica Ali's bestselling novel.

Author : Monica Ali
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552774456
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brick Lane written by Monica Ali and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lawrence Manley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107495555
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London written by Lawrence Manley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476683999
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of London's East End written by Kevin A. Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East End is an iconic area of London, from the transient street art of Banksy and Pablo Delgado to the exhibitions of Doreen Fletcher and Gilbert and George. Located east of the Tower of London and north of the River Thames, it has experienced a number of developmental stages in its four-hundred-year history. Originating as a series of scattered villages, the area has been home to Europe's worst slums and served as an affluent nodal point of the British Empire. Through its evolution, the East End has been the birthplace of radical political and social movements and the social center for a variety of diasporic communities. This reference work, with its alphabetically organized cross-referenced entries and its original and historical photography, serves as a comprehensive guide to the social and cultural history of this global hub.

Author : Monica Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416584072
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brick Lane written by Monica Ali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she meets a younger man involved in radical politics and begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.

Author : Rachel Bower
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331958166X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010 written by Rachel Bower and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across national, linguistic and cultural borders and repositions a range of contemporary and postcolonial authors never considered together before, including Monica Ali, John Berger, Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje and Alice Walker. Through a series of situated readings, the book shows how the return to epistolarity is underpinned by ideals relating to dialogue and human connection. Several of the works use letters to present non-anglophone material to the anglophone reader. Others use letters to challenge policed borders: the prison, occupied territory, the nation state. Elsewhere, letters are used to connect correspondents in different cultural and linguistic contexts. Common to all of the works considered in this book is the appeal that they make to us, as readers, and the responsibility they place on us to respond to this address. By taking the epistle as its starting point and pursuing Auerbach’s speculative ideal of weltliteratur, this book turns away from the dominant trend of ‘distant reading’ in world literature, and shows that it is in the close situated analysis of form and composition that the concept of world literature emerges most clearly. This study seeks to re-think the ways in which we read world literature and shows how the literary letter, in old and new forms, speaks powerfully again in this period.

Author : Tarquin Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416584021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review). Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives—Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream—Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.

Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195309539
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London written by Richard Tames and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Tames describes how London has been chronicled, described, celebrated, named, and mapped over the twenty centuries of its existence to become a city treasured even by those who have never set foot in it as a byword for innovation and diversity. This book has been written for those who, knowing London, know that it is too vast, too complex, too elusive ever to be fully known but yet would like to know it better still.

Author : S. Groes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230306012
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of London written by S. Groes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.

Author : Volkan Aytar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136587705
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods written by Volkan Aytar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems, they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for numerous entrepreneurs and employees. Local and national governments and other regulatory actors, as well as the media, have started to see and promote these neighborhoods as urban attractions for tourists, city dwellers and others. This book aims to analyze the roles of ethnic entrepreneurs and their associations and governments, and - by extension - of consumers and other actors in the rise of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption. Through case studies, it situates those neighborhoods at the edge of different theoretical debates about urban political economy and the politics of culture, and seeks a dynamic synergy between both.