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New Releases by Monica Ali

Monica Ali is the author of The Unspeakable Truth (2027), Love Marriage (2023), Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader) (2023), Liebesheirat (2022), Refugee Tales: Volume III (2019).

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The Unspeakable Truth

release date: Jul 08, 2027
The Unspeakable Truth
THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOVE MARRIAGE AND BRICK LANE Don''t make it worse. Don''t make a scene. Don''t say it out loud. Best friends Nilofer and Imogen live in the same close London world: thriving careers, comfortable homes, children at the same good schools. They can tell each other everything - until suddenly they can''t. Then Imogen is murdered. A man is arrested and the case seems closed, but Nilofer can''t shake the sense that something is off. As her need to understand what happened to her friend begins to consume her, she realises that saying the truth aloud could shatter everyone''s lives all over again. The Unspeakable Truth is a propulsive novel from a master storyteller about truth and lies, family and friendship, class and identity, as well as a profound examination of what happens when we challenge the stories everyone around us wants to believe. Praise for LOVE MARRIAGE: ''Absolutely terrific'' JENNY COLGAN ''An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love'' STYLIST ''Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic'' DAILY MAIL ''A glorious tapestry of modern British family life'' METRO ''A joy'' NAOISE DOLAN ''I defy you to put this book down'' ADAM KAY ''A surefire hit'' OBSERVER ''Wildly entertaining . . . a bold and generous book'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''Big-hearted, wry and tender'' HARPER''S BAZAAR ''As engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining'' TASH AW, TLS

Love Marriage

release date: Apr 04, 2023
Love Marriage
"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin''s parents and Joe''s mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into their car, packed with Indian food prepared by Yasmin''s mother, to go to dinner to meet Joe''s mother in her elegant townhouse in one of London''s poshest neighborhoods. Contrary to all of Yasmin''s fears, her unsophisticated and somewhat flamboyant mother is embraced and celebrated by Helen and her friends. Many complications ensue when Yasmin discovers that Joe has had an affair with a co-worker, and Yasmin''s ne''er do well brother is banished from the house by her father, and Yasmin''s mother moves to Helen''s house in protest. Love Marriage is a story of emotionally fraught self-discovery and how the secrets people keep hidden affect their most intimate relationships. Joe hides the exact nature of his promiscuous past; Yasmin''s brother and mother keep a monumental secret from their father; Yasmin has a wildly erotic affair of her own; and the story of her parents'' love marriage proves to be a cover-up for a dark, tragic history. In the wake of extreme upheaval, Yasmin finds herself, and her life, transformed"--

Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader)

release date: Feb 02, 2023
Penguin Readers Level 6: Brick Lane (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers'' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Brick Lane, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. When Nazneen is 18, she marries a much older man and moves from Bangladesh to England to be with her husband. But Brick Lane in London is very different from Nazneen''s village, and she speaks no English. Nazneen must try to look after her family and get used to a new, and very strange, country. Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Liebesheirat

release date: Mar 19, 2022
Liebesheirat
Yasmin Ghorami ist sich sicher: Mit Joe Sangster hat sie den Mann fürs Leben gefunden. Doch als der Hochzeitstermin näherrückt und Yasmins Eltern auf die unkonventionelle, feministische Mutter von Joe treffen, wirbeln ungeahnte Geheimnisse Yasmins strukturiertes Leben durcheinander. Was als tragikomischer Liebesroman beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einer bewegenden Geschichte über Menschen aus zwei Kulturen, die versuchen, einander zu verstehen. Yasmin und Joe haben große Pläne für die Zukunft. Doch bevor es für die beiden angehenden Ärzte ans Heiraten geht, steht das erste Kennenlernen ihrer Familien an. Und das hat es in sich. Denn während Yasmins traditionsbewusste Eltern schon bei einem Zungenkuss empört den Fernseher ausschalten, hat sich Joes Mutter schon vor Jahren einen Ruf als feministische Ikone erarbeitet. Und tatsächlich hält das Abendessen im noblen Primrose Hill überraschende Entwicklungen bereit. Jedoch völlig anders als gedacht, denn die beiden Familien verstehen sich blendend und zwischen den beiden Müttern des jungen Brautpaars entsteht eine außergewöhnliche Freundschaft, die mit althergebrachten Mustern und Gewissheiten bricht. Schon bald stehen Yasmin und Joe nicht nur vor der Herausforderung, ihre eigene Beziehung noch einmal neu zu bewerten, sondern auch die Beziehungen zu ihren Eltern auf den Prüfstand zu stellen. Nach über zehn Jahren hat die große britische Erzählerin Monica Ali endlich ihren lang erwarteten neuen Roman vorgelegt. Ein guter Zeitpunkt, um diese außergewöhnliche Autorin zu entdecken. "Monica Ali schreibt mit einer Weisheit und Geschicklichkeit, die nur wenige Autoren in ihrem Leben erreichen" The Sunday Times »Eine Autorin mit einem genauen Blick für Details und einem Stil, der scharfe Beobachtungsgabe und Poesie vereint und einen rasant in die Welt des Romans abtauchen lässt.« The Times

Refugee Tales: Volume III

release date: Jun 27, 2019
Refugee Tales: Volume III
With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released. In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives. ‘We hear so many of the wrong words about refugees – ugly, limiting, unimaginative words – that it feels like a gift to find here so many of the right words which allow us to better understand the lives around us, and our own lives too.’ – Kamila Shamsie All profits go to the Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group and Kent Help for Refugees.

Die gläserne Frau

release date: May 04, 2015

Povestea nespusă

release date: Jan 01, 2015

La véritable histoire de Lady L.

release date: Jan 24, 2013
La véritable histoire de Lady L.
Ne vous fiez pas aux apparences, Lady L. n''est pas celle que vous croyez. La femme sans histoire de cette petite ville américaine cache bien des secrets. Ceux d''une princesse anglaise disparue quelques années plus tôt, morte aux yeux du monde et bien décidée à le rester. Après le succès de Sept mers et treize rivières et de En cuisine, Monica Ali ressuscite Diana, le temps d''un roman plein de mystère, de suspense et de charme. Nimbé de mystère, un roman envoûtant au charme particulier, un What if novel qui réinvente le destin d''une icône royale, d''une lady anglaise inoubliable. 31 août 1997, la disparition tragique de la princesse de Galles plonge le Royaume-Uni dans le désespoir. Que s''est-il passé ? Qu''est-ce qui a conduit à cette tragédie ? Et si... Et si leur lady n''était pas morte ? Et si la princesse avait choisi de tout quitter, de maquiller sa mort et de renaître ailleurs ? Et si, lasse des tromperies de son époux, de la rigueur du protocole et de la traque incessante des paparazzi, elle avait choisi l''anonymat d''une petite ville américaine ? Dix ans plus tard, le secret de Lady L. ne tient plus qu''à un fil : un journaliste est tout près de la vérité. Déterminée à préserver les siens d''un nouveau scandale et à protéger ce qu''elle a mis tant de temps à reconstruire, Lady L. n''est pas prête à se rendre. De proie, la princesse pourrait bien devenir chasseur...

V kuchyni

release date: Jan 01, 2013

Untold Story

release date: Feb 01, 2012
Untold Story
From one of the most versatile and bold writers of our time comes a riveting novel inspired by Princess Diana.

Den okända historien

release date: Jan 01, 2012

La storia mai raccontata

release date: Jan 01, 2011

In the Kitchen

release date: Jan 01, 2010
In the Kitchen
Gabriel Lightfoot, originally from a northern England mill town, is making good in London as executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, in under constant challenge from the competing demands of a multinational staff, gimlet-eyed hotel management, and secret plans to start his own restaurant. Not to mention the worker found dead in the basement...

Hotel Imperial

release date: Jan 01, 2009

Café Paraíso

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Café Paraíso
Après l''étincelant Sept mers et treize rivières, le nouveau roman de Monica Ali, un blues mélancolique et envoûtant, les destins croisés de plusieurs personnages dans un petit village perdu de l''Alentejo, au sud du Portugal. A Mamarrosa, la personne la plus importante du village n''est ni le maire ni le curé, mais Vasco, le propriétaire du café. Un peu bourru et volontiers condescendant, pour mieux cacher la nostalgie de ses années passées en Amérique, il suit d''un œil moqueur le petit théâtre de ses habitués. Notamment Joâo, un octogénaire qui pleure la mort de son meilleur ami Rui, et la perte de ses rêves de jeunesse ; Harry Stanton, un écrivain anglais exilé au Portugal pour y trouver enfin l''inspiration ; une famille d''expatriés excentriques, les Potts, dont on ignore qui de Ruby, la fille, ou de Chrissie, la mère, a la réputation la plus trouble ; la jeune Teresa, partagée entre son désir de quitter le village et l''appréhension du départ et de sa nouvelle vie en Angleterre... Chroniques parallèles, vies entremêlées, et, au cœur de ces histoires, le village de Mamarrosa et le comptoir de Vasco, lieu de rencontres tantôt ordinaires, tantôt drôles ou émouvantes, symbole d''un paradis proche et lointain à la fois.

Alentejo Blue

release date: Jun 20, 2006
Alentejo Blue
Alentejo Blue is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. For Teresa, a beautiful girl not yet twenty, Mamarrosa is a place from which to escape. For the dysfunctional Potts family, it is a way of running from trouble (though not eluding it). Vasco, a café owner who has never recovered from the death of his American wife, clings to a notion that his years away from the village, in the States, make him superior. One English tourist fantasizes about making a new life in Mamarrosa; for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, Mamarrosa is where their dreams fall apart. At the opening of Alentejo Blue, an old man reflects on his long and troubled life in this seemingly tranquil place, and anticipates the homecoming of Marco Afonso Rodrigues, the prodigal son of the village and a symbol of the now fast-changing world. When Marco does finally return, villagers, tourists, and expatriates are brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide.

Sette mari e tredici fiumi

release date: Jan 01, 2006

Sept mers et treize rivières

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Sept mers et treize rivières
L''histoire drôle et poignante d''une Bangladaise émigrée à Londres. Un roman généreux, foisonnant et épicé sur le choc des cultures, les désenchantements de l''exil et les mirages de l''intégration. Une formidable galerie de personnages. Une écriture étincelante. Un pur joyau. En 1967, dans un village de l''est du Pakistan, une femme croit donner le jour à une enfant mort-née. Mais Nazneen survit et devient " celle qui a été livrée à son Destin ". Un destin qui l''attend à Londres, auprès de l''époux choisi par son père : Chanu, la quarantaine bedonnante, ennuyeuse et pontifiante, des rêves en pagaille, sans les moyens de ses ambitions. Isolée dans ce pays dont elle ne parle pas la langue, Nazneen n''a d''autre choix que se soumettre. Dans la cité de Brick Lane où règnent racisme ordinaire, fondamentalisme rampant et trafics en tous genres, elle découvrira pourtant la solidarité, la débrouillardise et l''amitié. Tiraillée entre traditions ancestrales et espoirs insensés, Nazneen va peu à peu prendre le contrôle de sa vie, jusqu''à franchir le pire des interdits... Et comprendre que s''octroyer le droit au bonheur a un prix. [payot.ch]

Ve čtvrti Brick Lane

release date: Jan 01, 2004

Brick Lane

release date: Jan 01, 2003

Siete mares, trece ríos

release date: Jan 01, 2003

7 mars, 13 rius

release date: Jan 01, 2003
7 mars, 13 rius
“Per viure cada dia cal molt de coratge.”Aquesta veritat tan simple i rotunda a la vegada és l’eix de la novel·la de Monica Ali, la gran revelació de la llista Granta dels millors autors joves britànics del 2003.7 mars, 13 rius és la història de Nazne
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