Monica Ali





Monica Ali

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in Dhaka, Bangladesh
October 20, 1967

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Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003. Ali was voted Granta's Best of Young British Novelists on the basis of the unpublished manuscript.

She lives in South London with her husband, Simon Torrance, a management consultant. They have two children, Felix (born 1999) and Shumi (born 2001).

She opposes the British government’s attempt to introduce the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006. She discusses this in her contribution to Free Expression Is No Offence, a collection of essays published by Penguin in 2005.


Average rating: 3.23 · 16,703 ratings · 1,846 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
Brick Lane
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 13,391 ratings — published 2003 — 50 editions
Untold Story
2.87 of 5 stars 2.87 avg rating — 1,214 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions
In the Kitchen
2.65 of 5 stars 2.65 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 2009 — 27 editions
Alentejo Blue
2.68 of 5 stars 2.68 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2006 — 31 editions
brick lane: a novel
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
Brick Lane:a novel
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Alentejo Blue: Fiction
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006
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“Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265”
Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“Apa yang tidak kuketahui-saat masih muda dulu-ada dua jenis cinta. Jenis yang bermula begitu dahsyatnya dan pelan-pelan menghilang, yang terasa seperti tak akan pernah habis lalu suatu hari tahu-tahu ludes. Lalu ada jenis yang tadinya tidak disadari, tetapi terus tumbuh sedikit demi sedikit setiap harinya, seperti kerang yang menghasilkan mutiara, bulir demi bulir, sebuah permata dari pasir.”
Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up." p. 382”
Monica Ali, Brick Lane



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