Lies.’ Brick Lane is a fine first novel, but nobody should be surprised if it raises similar arguments. ‘You know, personal, made-up, invented – fiction.’ ‘Exactly’, he said. When I got back to Calcutta, I got into a shouting match with a taxi-driver about The Satanic Verses. Sylhettis, however, are the people her characters (though not their author) live among. Ian Jack, the editor of the Granta Magazine said: “Monica Ali is not from Sylhet and nor are her novel´s principal characters. Just to show how critics reacted to Ali´s masterpiece, I will give two examples briefly. People who actually live in the estate of Brick Lane feel being patronized by Ali´s novel the more or the less. The novel is highly disputed with its most important aspects of identity, belonging and community problems. This research paper deals with Monica Ali´s first novel Brick Lane, an epic saga about a Bangladeshi family living in London, which explores the British immigration experience. Brick Lane: A Guide to Post-Colonial Literature? Brick Lane: A Bengali Community in London – The Discrepancy of Two Worldsģ.
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