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Article: Bye-Bye to Brick Lane-- Monica Ali Changes Tack.(Culture)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2006
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Byline: Celia Mcgee
Monica Ali is not a subscriber to the guest-worker school of fiction, the vaguely held assumption that what was born abroad should stick with and to its own kind. Like the rest of Europe, the pale Britannia Ms. Ali moved to as a child from Bangladesh has come relatively late to the need to even think about immigrants or citizens of less-than-familiar hues taking a place at literature's high table. V.S. Naipaul took his seat early on-and with mixed feelings-followed by Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Caryl Philips and Andrea Levy, among others. Ms. Ali came along several years ago and, with her remarkable novel Brick Lane, turned England inside ...
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