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Synopsis
A collection of short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal features characters linked by a vivid sense of place and time, including Teresa, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a cafâe owner who is losing business to a new Internet cafâe.
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"'Written with a wisdom and skill that few authors attain in a lifetime'" (Sunday Times)
"'Brick Lane has everything: richly complex characters, a gripping story and it's funny too'" (Observer)
"'The kind of novel that surprises one with its depth and dash; it is a novel that will last'" (Guardian)
"'The joy of this book is its marriage of a wonderful writer with a fresh, rich and hidden world.Her achievement is huge. This is a book written with love and compassion'" (Evening Standard)
"'A wonderful first novel.Ali's writing is stunning, almost poetic at times, and she has a beautifully inventive turn of phrase" (Mail on Sunday)
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An evocative tale of belonging and exile by one of Britain's best young novelists.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0786289015
- ISBN 13 9780786289011
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages383
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