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Monica Ali

    20 oktober 1967

    Monica Ali is een Britse schrijfster van Bengaalse afkomst, bekend om haar genuanceerde verkenningen van identiteit en culturele vervreemding. Haar proza wordt geprezen om zijn levendige beeldspraak en scherpe psychologische portretten, die de lezer onderdompelen in het complexe innerlijke leven van haar personages. Ali beeldt meesterlijk zowel intieme omgevingen als bredere maatschappelijke landschappen af, en benadrukt de universele zoektocht naar verbondenheid. Haar werk onderzoekt kritisch de uitdagingen van het navigeren in meerdere culturele werelden.

    Monica Ali
    Untold Story
    The Weekenders
    Brick lane
    Love Marriage
    Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader)
    The Weed Gummies Cookbook
    • The Weed Gummies Cookbook

      • 128bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen

      Homemade edibles are cost-effective, discreet, and delicious! This practical cookbook is the go-to resource for the cannabis curious of all levels and offers approachable ways to incorporate a variety of cannabinoids into your routine. With step-by-step instructions and colour photos, you'll also get pro tips for safely handling and labelling your confections. Get inspired to create your own special gummies and candies that are even better than your average dispensary-bought treats! Take your cannabis cooking skills to the next level and get your sugar fix with this ultimate cookbook.

      The Weed Gummies Cookbook
      4,7
    • With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Brick Lane, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen's village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country.

      Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader)
      3,0
    • Love Marriage

      • 512bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals. As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means...[Bokinfo].

      Love Marriage
      3,8
    • Brick lane

      • 496bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      Set in Tower Hamlets, this contemporary novel immerses readers in the life of an Asian immigrant girl, exploring themes of love, fate, and cultural conflict. Nazneen, a teenager, finds herself in an arranged marriage with a man twenty years her senior. Relocated from her Bangladeshi village to a cramped flat in London's East End, she struggles with the language barrier and relies heavily on her husband. However, her practical nature leads her to form a friendship with Razia, who helps her navigate her new environment. Nazneen maintains contact with her sister Hasina, who has defied tradition by pursuing a love marriage. Unfortunately, Hasina's relationship turns violent, forcing her into a degrading job in a garment factory. While Nazneen is confined by cultural expectations and family obligations, she sews for a living until the arrival of the radical Karim sparks a transformative love affair. This relationship compels Nazneen to reclaim control over her life amidst racial tensions. With a blend of humor and grace, the novel captures Nazneen's journey from a timid girl to a confident woman, examining the interplay of fate and personal agency. It is a resonant drama from a promising new literary voice destined for prominence.

      Brick lane
      3,5
    • The Weekenders

      Adventures In Calcutta

      • 301bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      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 Weekenders
      3,1
    • 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 Story
      2,7
    • Alentejo Blue

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      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 Blue
      2,8
    • '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 kitchen
      2,7
    • Star Quality Hospitality

      • 186bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Running an independent hospitality business is complex, whether it's a hotel or restaurant, and mistakes will cost you money - or your reputation.

      Star Quality Hospitality