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Brick Lane

Audiobook
Set in the gritty Tower Hamlets area of East London, Brick Laneis the story of Nazneen, an Asian immigrant girl and how she deals with issues of love, cultural differences and the human spirit. Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangladeshi village for a high-rise block in the East End, she finds herself cloistered and dependent on her husband. It soon becomes apparent that of the two, she is the real survivor and more able to deal with the ways of the world and the vagaries of human behavior. Through her friendship with another Asian girl, she begins to understand the unsettling ways of her new homeland.

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Publisher: HighBridge Edition: Abridged
Awards:

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781598871258
  • File size: 321316 KB
  • Release date: September 22, 2003
  • Duration: 11:09:24

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781598871258
  • File size: 321821 KB
  • Release date: September 22, 2003
  • Duration: 11:09:24
  • Number of parts: 10

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:660
Text Difficulty:3

Set in the gritty Tower Hamlets area of East London, Brick Laneis the story of Nazneen, an Asian immigrant girl and how she deals with issues of love, cultural differences and the human spirit. Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangladeshi village for a high-rise block in the East End, she finds herself cloistered and dependent on her husband. It soon becomes apparent that of the two, she is the real survivor and more able to deal with the ways of the world and the vagaries of human behavior. Through her friendship with another Asian girl, she begins to understand the unsettling ways of her new homeland.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    HighBridge
    Edition:
    Abridged

    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781598871258
    File size: 321316 KB
    Release date: September 22, 2003
    Duration: 11:09:24

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781598871258
    File size: 321821 KB
    Release date: September 22, 2003
    Duration: 11:09:24
    Number of parts: 10

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 660
    Text Difficulty: 3
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