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Salaam Brick Lane (Paperback)
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Salaam Brick Lane (Paperback)
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List price R298
Loot Price R242
Discovery Miles 2 420
You Save R56 (19%)
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After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his
native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban
childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his
Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing
market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing
Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi
sweatshop on London's Brick Lane. A grimy skylight provided the
only window on their new world: a filthy, noisy street where drug
dealers and prostitutes peddled their wares and tramps urinated on
the pavements. At night, traffic lights lit up the ceiling and
police sirens wailed into the early hours. Yet, as Hall got to know
Brick Lane, he discovered beneath its unlovely surface an inner
world where immigrants and asylum seekers struggle to better
themselves and dream of escape. Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of
discovery by an outsider in his own native city. It offers an
explicit glimpse of the underbelly of London's most infamous
quarter, the real-life world of Monica Ali's bestselling novel.
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