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This book was quite long but very well worth it. It was fascinating to accompany Nazdeen on her journey from Bangladesh to London to find her own identity. Learning about her sister through her letter showed an interesting perspective of how life could have been for Nazdeen, had she not been part of an arranged marriage and had stayed in Bangladesh. The book is filled with different subjects that all come down to the gradual empowerment of Nazdeen and the relationships she builds with her family
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Just a fantastic novel.
I think I should have liked this book more than I did. It was well written and the themes were woven together masterfully, but the characters irritated me. Maybe this was part of the point, but it's hard to love a book when you want to shake the characters. The end was redeeming (of the book and characters), but it took a lot of patience to get to it.
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This novel covers about fifteen years in the life of a contemporary Bangladeshi woman who marries young and moves to London. Her story is engaging despite the sadness of her isolation and the heartbreaking letters from her sister who is still in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, about 2/3 through, the story bogs down, then speeds up to finish. ( May 27, 2006)
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