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1) Corner shop
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting your heart's desire and the other? Getting it. Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khahlil loves three things: football, Star Wars, and Portia, the girl who works in his grandfather's corner shop. In that order. But Lucky has a destiny - worse than a destiny, he has a dream. He dreams that one day, his lucky left foot will win the World Cup for England. It torments him, because it tastes real, because when...
2) Brick Lane
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Monica Ali's gorgeous first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage. Already hailed by the London Observer as "one of the most significant British novelists of her generation," Ali has written a stunningly accomplished debut about one outsider's quest to find her voice. What could not be changed must be borne. And since nothing...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Salma Khatun is hopeful about Blenheim, the suburban development into which she, her husband, and their son have just moved. The Bangladeshi family needs a fresh start, and Blenheim feels like just the place. Soon after they move in, Salma spots her white neighbor, Tom Hutton, ripping out the anti-racist banner her son put in the front garden. Avoiding confrontation, Salma takes the banner inside and puts it in her window. But the next morning, she...
4) Brick lane
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A young Bangladeshi woman struggling with a loveless, arranged marriage to a middle-aged man in London finds herself drawn to her hotheaded neighbor.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Nishat's parents say she can be anyone she wants--as long as she isn't a lesbian. Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flavia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flavia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as...
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