At 18, Nazneen's life is turned upside down after she leaves her home in Bangladesh with a new husband twenty years her senior, to start a new life in council flats in London. She struggles with the language, the lifestyle and trying to be a good wife, keeping her discontent silent-until she meets yound radical Karim.

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This book is travelling to Germany for the Intercultural bookbox. Hope you enjoy it!

Received this in the mail today.
From the Booker Prize shortlist 2003, brilliant!!!
Thank you, chuckles!!!

What an interesting book! First I didn't like it that much, but it gets more and more complex. Great descriptions of the London Bengali immigrant community, of family life in a different culture, the protagonist Nazneen's affair with a young radical. Interwoven with Nazneen's East End life is her sister's story, told in her letters, back in Bangladesh: a love marriage, domestic violence, life as a factory worker, as a prostitute, as a maid.
Recommendable!!!

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Travelling to jumpingin.
Happy reading!

Thanks, ApoloniaX. Another one of your books for my TBR!

How funny that this arrived almost a week after the other book you mailed on the same day. The postal system is mysterious, isn't it?

I ended up with two copies of this book, so I offered this one in ApoloniaX's South Asian VBB and it was chosen by LittleDaschund. Sent by surface mail today.

The book arrived today. I'm so happy! It was posted more than 2 months ago and I thought it got lost by the posts. Thank you for sharing, jumpinggin!