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Monica Ali

    20. október 1967

    Monica Ali je britská autorka bangladéšskeho pôvodu, ktorá sa vo svojej tvorbe zameriava na zložité témy identity a kultúrnych stretov. Jej próza je známa bohatým obrazným jazykom a prenikavým vhľadom do ľudskej psychiky. Ali kladie dôraz na detailné vykreslenie postáv a prostredia, čím čitateľom umožňuje hlboko sa vcítiť do ich osudov. Jej dielo často skúma pocity odcizenia a hľadanie domova v cudzom svete.

    Monica Ali
    Alentejo Blue
    Untold Story
    The Weekenders
    Love Marriage
    In the kitchen
    Brick Lane
    • Brick Lane

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      Brick Lane2023
    • Love Marriage

      • 512 stránok
      • 18 hodin čítania

      "Yasmin Ghorami in twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin's relationship and that of her parents, a "love marriage," according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life. A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another."--

      Love Marriage2022
      3,8
    • Untold Story

      • 342 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Lydia, an Englishwoman abroad, chooses to escape her past. Although she builds a new life, forges friendships and makes a home, she cannot forget what she left behind: her children, her family and her heritage. But can she ever truly shake off her history...?

      Untold Story2011
      2,7
    • 'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious d

      In the kitchen2009
      2,7
    • Alentejo Blue

      • 240 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania

      A new collection of short stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal features a range of colorful characters, linked by a vivid sense of place and time, including Teresa, a beautiful young girl from the village engaged to a suitable man, who yearns to see the world, and Vasco, a caf‚ owner who is losing business to the new Internet caf‚ down the road. By the author of Brick Lane. 75,000 first printing.

      Alentejo Blue2006
      2,8
    • The Weekenders

      Adventures In Calcutta

      • 301 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

      The Weekenders2004
      3,1
    • Focusing on a cross-section of the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets, a community all but invisible to the rest of London, Ali's novel is warm, shrewd, startling, and hugely readable; the sort of book you race through greedily.

      Brick Lane2003
      3,5