Brick Lane
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Monica Ali est une écrivaine britannique d'origine bangladaise, reconnue pour ses explorations nuancées de l'identité et du déracinement culturel. Sa prose est célébrée pour ses images saisissantes et ses portraits psychologiques incisifs, plongeant le lecteur dans la vie intérieure complexe de ses personnages. Ali dépeint magistralement aussi bien les cadres intimes que les paysages sociétaux plus larges, soulignant la quête universelle d'appartenance. Son œuvre examine de manière critique les défis liés à la navigation dans des mondes culturels multiples.







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Running an independent hospitality business is complex, whether it's a hotel or restaurant, and mistakes will cost you money - or your reputation.
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.
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"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."--
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...?
Chef des cuisines de l'hôtel Impérial, un palace plus vraiment à la hauteur de sa splendeur d'antan, Gabriel Lightfoot doit composer chaque jour avec une équipe cosmopolite et chahuteuse, une petite amie chanteuse qui se pose des questions sur leur relation et un père malade qui lui laisse des messages aussi laconiques que culpabilisants sur son répondeur. Une mort va faire voler en éclats son fragile équilibre : le corps d'un des employés est retrouvé dans les sous-sols du restaurant. Une mort solitaire, anonyme, parmi ces travailleurs immigrés interchangeables. Soudain, Gabriel prend conscience que ses cuisines cachent bien des secrets : trafics en tous genres, prostitution, chantages, violence quotidienne... Surgit Lena, une fille de l'Est, mystérieusement liée à cette mort. Irrésistiblement attiré par cette femme en perdition, Gabriel va prendre une décision qui remettra en question tout ce en quoi il avait cru jusqu'ici...
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.