Brick Lane
3 journalers for this copy...
A novel about a Bangladeshi immigrant woman in England. At the age of 18, village girl Nazneen is married off to her more than double-aged husband Chanu into the concrete jungle of a London suburb.
Warm-heartedly and with a good sense of humour, the novel describes Nazneen's (window-)views on her new neighbours, her well-studied husband's vain efforts for promotion to an adequate job,her new acquaintances and friendships with other immigrant women struggling between traditional thinking and careful integration into their new home country.
A more surprising than wanted love affair leads Nazneen first into the confusing meetings of a local islamist group with all its rivalries and contradictions and then to her own emancipation from a life governed by fatalism. This not at least thanks to her teenage daughter and her best friend who advanced from an overprotecting mother to a businesswoman.
A very interesting part of the novel were to me also the letters from Nazneen's sister Hasina in Bangladesh, who already at the age of 16 refused to dedicate her life to a fate made for her by others and despite all the trouble she went through since then, she still uses to run away when a "safe haven" of her life is becoming a prison...
To me, this book is one of the best ones I read during the last few years. Being married with a Pakistani, in some episodes I found parallels to my husband's and his friends's and family's thinking and behaviour, but even more, I found twin brothers and -sisters of these immigrant characters within my German friends and family...
For being sure to share my reading pleasure with a greater number of others, I would like to start a book ring with "Brick Lane".
On the Aachen Meet-up at 19 August, I could start my bookring with two interested people. As you see, booklet2 has already taken the book. CatGrisu, actually the first one interested, asked me to put her a little bit downwards on the list, as she still has much to read and to do...
So who also wants to join us?
1. booklet2
2. you?
3. ???
x. CatGrisu
Would be nice if we became a ring of 5 - 10 people!
Warm-heartedly and with a good sense of humour, the novel describes Nazneen's (window-)views on her new neighbours, her well-studied husband's vain efforts for promotion to an adequate job,her new acquaintances and friendships with other immigrant women struggling between traditional thinking and careful integration into their new home country.
A more surprising than wanted love affair leads Nazneen first into the confusing meetings of a local islamist group with all its rivalries and contradictions and then to her own emancipation from a life governed by fatalism. This not at least thanks to her teenage daughter and her best friend who advanced from an overprotecting mother to a businesswoman.
A very interesting part of the novel were to me also the letters from Nazneen's sister Hasina in Bangladesh, who already at the age of 16 refused to dedicate her life to a fate made for her by others and despite all the trouble she went through since then, she still uses to run away when a "safe haven" of her life is becoming a prison...
To me, this book is one of the best ones I read during the last few years. Being married with a Pakistani, in some episodes I found parallels to my husband's and his friends's and family's thinking and behaviour, but even more, I found twin brothers and -sisters of these immigrant characters within my German friends and family...
For being sure to share my reading pleasure with a greater number of others, I would like to start a book ring with "Brick Lane".
On the Aachen Meet-up at 19 August, I could start my bookring with two interested people. As you see, booklet2 has already taken the book. CatGrisu, actually the first one interested, asked me to put her a little bit downwards on the list, as she still has much to read and to do...
So who also wants to join us?
1. booklet2
2. you?
3. ???
x. CatGrisu
Would be nice if we became a ring of 5 - 10 people!
just found!
beim Meet-up mitgenommen
Journal Entry 4 by Arwen73 at Hauptbahnhof in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (1/17/2007 UTC) at Hauptbahnhof in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Ich werde dieses Buch entweder morgen früh vor 6.26 Uhr am Bahnhof, oder aber im Wupper-Express freilassen.
Ich werde dieses Buch entweder morgen früh vor 6.26 Uhr am Bahnhof, oder aber im Wupper-Express freilassen.
Leider war ich immer zu faul, es wirklich auf Englisch zu lesen. Habe es inzwischen auf Deutsch gelesen und fand es sehr schön.
