![]() ![]() ![]() When he suddenly turns violent, she is forced into the degrading job of garment girl in a cloth factory.Ĭonfined in her flat by tradition and family duty, Nazneen also sews furiously for a living, shut away with her buttons and linings – until the radical Karim steps unexpectedly into her life. But the rebellious Hasina has kicked against cultural tradition and run off in a ‘love marriage’ with the man of her dreams. Nazneen keeps in touch with her sister Hasina back in the village. But unlike him she is practical and wise, and befriends a fellow Asian girl Razia, who helps her understand the strange ways of her adopted new British home. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and is forced to depend on her husband. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London’s East End. Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Publisher: Black Swan (first published 2003) ![]()
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