Brick Lane

Monica Ali's debut novel, Brick Lane, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.

Prize history

• Orange Prize for Fiction

  2004

  Longlist
• Orwell Prize for Political Writing

  2004

  Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

  Shortlist
• Man Booker Prize

  2003

  Shortlist