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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