Guardian First Book Award Shortlist
Discover the Guardian First Book Award shortlist, featuring standout debut works like Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Explore award-winning books across fiction and more in this curated collection of essential literary talent.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
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. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
