Monica Ali Libros

L'histoire drôle et poignante d'une Bangladaise émigrée à Londres explore le choc des cultures, les désenchantements de l'exil et les mirages de l'intégration. Nazneen, née en 1967 dans un village du Pakistan, est considérée morte à la naissance, mais elle survit. Soumise à son destin, elle épouse un homme, Chanu, choisi par son père, et s'installe à Londres. Chanu, exilé depuis longtemps, aspire à une ascension sociale mais reste bloqué dans ses ambitions, tout en étant protecteur envers Nazneen. Isolée dans une cité de Tower Hamlets, Nazneen trouve du réconfort dans la maternité, ayant deux filles. Cependant, elle aspire à plus que son rôle d'épouse et de mère. Lorsqu'elle commence à faire des travaux de couture à domicile, elle découvre les prémices de l'indépendance et entame une liaison avec Karim, un jeune fondamentaliste musulman. Les tensions communautaires augmentent dans le quartier, tandis que sa sœur Hasina, restée au Bangladesh, vit une déchéance. Lorsque Chanu décide de retourner au pays, Nazneen se retrouve face à un choix déchirant : suivre son mari et retrouver sa sœur ou rester dans une ville en effervescence qu'elle commence à peine à connaître.

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With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Brick Lane, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen's village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country.

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals. As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means...[Bokinfo].

Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

Lydia, an Englishwoman abroad, chooses to escape her past. Although she builds a new life, forges friendships and makes a home, she cannot forget what she left behind: her children, her family and her heritage. But can she ever truly shake off her history...?

A new collection of short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal features a range of colorful characters, linked by a vivid sense of place and time, including Teresa, a beautiful young girl from the village engaged to a suitable man, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a caf‚ owner who is losing business to the new Internet caf‚ down the road. By the author of Brick Lane. 75,000 first printing.

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious d