Monica Ali Libros

L'histoire drôle et poignante d'une Bangladaise émigrée à Londres. Un roman généreux, foisonnant et épicé sur le choc des cultures, les désenchantements de l'exil et les mirages de l'intégration. Une formidable galerie de personnages. Une écriture étincelante. Un pur joyau. L'histoire drôle et poignante d'une Bangladaise émigrée à Londres. Un roman généreux, foisonnant et épicé sur le choc des cultures, les désenchantements de l'exil et les mirages de l'intégration. Une formidable galerie de personnages. Une écriture étincelante. Un pur joyau. Lorsque Nazneen vient au monde en 1967, dans un village de l'est du Pakistan, sa mère la croit mort-née. Mais soudain, son petit corps se met en mouvement : Nazneen vivra. Placée entre les mains d'Allah dès sa naissance, elle devra dès lors se soumettre à son destin. A dix-huit ans, tandis que Hasina, sa sœur cadette, ose fuir le village familial pour faire un mariage d'amour, Nazneen épouse le mari que lui a choisi son père et part vivre à Londres avec Chanu, un homme de vingt ans son aîné au physique ingrat. Exilé depuis de nombreuses années, Chanu rêve d'ascension sociale, multiplie en vain les cours du soir, en quête de quelque diplôme à exhiber. Malgré son insupportable fatuité, Chanu est un homme foncièrement bon, mais s'il se targue d'être moderne, il refuse de laisser sortir Hazina de leur appartement, de peur du qu'en dira-t'on. Loin de sa famille, isolée dans une cité de Tower Hamlets où ses seules distractions sont les visites de ses voisines bangladaises, Nazneen trouve un réconfort dans la maternité. Elle aura deux filles. Pourtant, les années passant, Nazneen aspire à autre chose que d'être une épouse docile et une mère modèle. Elle rêve de marcher seule dans son quartier, d'apprendre l'anglais, de quitter son sari et de travailler... Lorsque Chanu, à court d'argent, lui permet de faire des travaux de couture à domicile, Nazneen découvre enfin les prémices de l'indépendance, commence à braver les interdits, jusqu'à vivre un amour adultère avec Karim, un jeune fondamentaliste musulman. Dans le quartier, les tensions communautaires augmentent, les échauffourées se multiplient. A Dhakha, la sœur de Nazneen, avec laquelle elle n'a cessé de correspondre, vit une inexorable déchéance. Aussi, lorsque Chanu décide de retourner au pays, un terrible choix s'offre alors à Nazneen : le suivre au Bangladesh et retrouver sa sœur ou rester, seule, dans une ville en effervescence qu'elle connaît à peine...

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released. In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives.

Homemade edibles are cost-effective, discreet, and delicious! This practical cookbook is the go-to resource for the cannabis curious of all levels and offers approachable ways to incorporate a variety of cannabinoids into your routine. With step-by-step instructions and colour photos, you'll also get pro tips for safely handling and labelling your confections. Get inspired to create your own special gummies and candies that are even better than your average dispensary-bought treats! Take your cannabis cooking skills to the next level and get your sugar fix with this ultimate cookbook.

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 in twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin's relationship and that of her parents, a "love marriage," according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life. A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another."--

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...?

Alentejo Blue" is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to escape; for others - the dysfunctional Potts family - it is a way of running from trouble (but not eluding it). Vasco, a cafe owner who has never recovered from the death of his American wife, clings to a notion that his years in America make him superior to the other villagers. One English tourist makes Mamarrosa the subject of her fantasy of a new life, while for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, Mamarrosa is where their dreams finally fall apart. At the book's opening an old man reflects on his long and troubled life in this beautiful and seemingly tranquil setting, and anticipates the return of Marco Afonso Rodrigues, the prodigal son of the village and a symbol of this now fast-changing world. The homecoming is the subject of continuing speculation, and when Marco Afonso Rodrigues does finally appear, villagers, tourists and expatriates are brought together and jealousies, passions and disappointments must inevitably collide.

'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