Brick Lane (Abridged) Audiobook

Quotes

• “It usually takes [writers] two or three books to establish their form—and yet Monica Ali already has a sense of technical assurance and an inborn generosity that cannot be learned. Brick Lane inspires confidence about the career that is to come.”

  — New York Times

• “At once sophisticated and innocent, compassionate and entertaining.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Splendid…Daring…Brilliant…Refreshing…Brick Lane is a great achievement of the subtlest storytelling.”

  — New Republic

• “Brick Lane is as crisp and urgent as a headline…But the true pleasure of this wonderful novel comes from its timeless sense of wonder and affection for the haplessness of human nature.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Already one of the most significant British novelists of her generation.”

  — Observer (London)

• “Ali describes in quite an intricate way how a Muslim housewife might think and behave and what her aspirations might be. Brick Lane is a brilliant book about things that matter.”

  — Granta

• “Brick Lane effortlessly dissolves the gendered false barrier between the social-political and domestic novel, often without ranging far from Nazneen’s cluttered flat and the pangs of her increasingly adventurous mind.”

  — Village Voice

• “The immigrant world Ali chronicles in this penetrating, unsentimental debut has much in common with Zadie Smith’s scrappy, multicultural London…Carefully observed and assured, the novel is free of pyrotechnics, its power residing in Ali's unsparing scrutiny of its hapless, hopeful protagonists.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “[Monica Ali] is one of those dangerous writers who sees everything.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)