![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an overstuffed sofa of a book, with too many subplots and too many words. This year, she came back with “ Love Marriage,” a contemporary comic novel about an engaged interracial couple on a rocky road to their nuptials. That’s partly what made “Brick Lane” a bestseller and then a film - and Ali a Booker Prize finalist and a Granta “best young novelist.”Īfter several more books that ranged far afield (including “ Alentejo Blue,” short stories set in Portugal “ In the Kitchen,” a hotel-staff murder mystery and the Princess Diana alternate history “ Untold Story”), Ali took a 10-year break from publishing. Even the more recent immigrants, like Nazneen, are decidedly settled in, not apologizing for existing, even when their existence is called into question. ![]() One of the things that distinguished Monica Ali’s 2003 debut novel, “ Brick Lane,” was its insistence on London as fully home to its Bangladeshi-born characters. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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