Brick Lane: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize - Tapa blanda

"'The new rising star of English fiction post Zadie Smith ... Highly recommended.'" (Marie Claire)

"'Monica Ali is a fabulous writer, and Brick Lane is finely observed, deeply compassionate, wry and tender.'" (Meera Syal)

"'A very special novel - I adored it. It gave me everything I crave in a novel ... You won't publish a better novel in 2003.'" (Margaret Forster)

"'A very special novel - I adored it. It gave me everything I crave in a novel - entertaining, moving and fascinating.'" (Margaret Forster)

"'Entertaining and full of insight ... talented, thoughtful and mature.'" (Hilary Mantel)

Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. away from her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London's east end.