Lies.' Brick Lane is a fine first novel, but nobody should be surprised if it raises similar arguments. 'You know, personal, made-up, invented - fiction.' 'Exactly', he said. When I got back to Calcutta, I got into a shouting match with a taxi-driver about The Satanic Verses. Sylhettis, however, are the people her characters (though not their author) live among. Ian Jack, the editor of the Granta Magazine said: "Monica Ali is not from Sylhet and nor are her novel´s principal characters. Just to show how critics reacted to Ali´s masterpiece, I will give two examples briefly. People who actually live in the estate of Brick Lane feel being patronized by Ali's novel the more or the less. The novel is highly disputed with its most important aspects of identity, belonging and community problems. Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 3.0, University of Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: 10008 PS: London in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature, language: English, abstract: This research paper deals with Monica Ali's first novel Brick Lane, an epic saga about a Bangladeshi family living in London, which explores the British immigration experience.
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