Product Details
Scribner, June 2007
Trade Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0743293045
ISBN-13: 9780743293044
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Description
Following her National Book Critics Circle and Los Angeles Times Book Award-nominated, bestselling debut, Brick Lane, Monica Ali's splendid Alentejo Blue "rewards readers with characters who etch themselves into one's memory" (People).
Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story of displacement and modernization told through the lives of the locals and of people who are just passing through. The residents of Mamarrosa whose ancestors occupy the graveyards are restless and struggle to make a living. They watch as tourists and expats move in.
Monica Ali's characters are profoundly sympathetic. Her understanding of their dreams, desires, and disappointments is rare and moving. Alentejo Blue is evidence that Monica Ali is one of the most gifted voices of her generation.
"With its supple prose and acute insights...Alentejo Blue...establishes definitively that Monica Ali is a major literary talent."
-- Entertainment Weekly
"Indelible...[Alentejo Blue] rewards with characters who etch themselves into one's memory."
-- People
"This stunningly crafted fiction will knock you off your feet."
-- O
"Luminous...both touching and compelling."
-- Library Journal
"Dazzling."
-- Time Out New York
Denver Post, August 16, 2009
...the bizarre. Murder, prostitution, drugs, illegal immigration mixed with the mundane tasks of preparing meals and washing pots: Monica Ali's third novel, 'In the Kitchen,' is a frenetic, sometimes confusing story about immigrants trying to ...
Sunday Times South Africa, August 8, 2009
...says the acclaimed author, has made sure of that. By Bron Sibree It comes as no surprise that Monica Ali has been brooding on her ambitious new and third novel, In the Kitchen, for several years. After all, Bangladeshi-born, British- raised ...
Toronto Star Online, June 16, 2009
...This is an excerpt from Monica Ali's latest book: When he looked back, he felt that the death of the Ukrainian was the point at which things began to fall apart. He could not say ...
Examiner.com, June 15, 2009
...band Las Rubias del Norte will appear as well. Tuesday June 16, 7:30 PM: The bar for Monica Ali's third novel, In the Kitchen, is high after the acclaim received by her first, Brick Lane and the disappointment with her second, Alentejo Blue. ...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 20, 2009
...MONICA ALI is famous for one of the most spectacular literary debuts of recent years. On the basis of the manuscript version alone of her first novel, Brick Lane, she was ...
The Australian, May 15, 2009
...Article from: The Australian In the Kitchen by Monica Ali (Doubleday, $32.95) 'REALLY, it was all about the custard,' says Monica Ali, discussing the inspiration for her new novel, In the Kitchen. She laughs frequently during our ...
The Scotsman, May 8, 2009
...which to dissect 21st century consumer-culture than the kitchen of a large hotel? Gabriel Lightfoot, the protagonist of Monica Ali's ambitious third novel, is the executive chef at the Imperial, a Victorian pile in Central London, presiding ...
Metro.co.uk, May 6, 2009
...In her second novel following 2003 smash Brick Lane and 2006's Portugal-set short story collection, Alentejo Blue, Monica Ali shifts focus again: this time to a well-intentioned but badly delivered excursion into the lives of workers in a ...
Thelondonpaper, May 5, 2009
...Monica Ali's new book fails to stir the emotions Monica Ali, author of In The Kitchen In The Kitchen Monica Ali Doubleday, £17.99 STRICTLY speaking, In The Kitchen is ...
Telegraph, May 5, 2009
...Sukhdev Sandhu finds nothing cooking in 's In the Kitchen Poor Monica Ali. Three books into her career and her publisher is already rewriting her history, describing her new novel, In the Kitchen, as a brilliant follow-up to Brick Lane. Well ...
Telegraph, April 30, 2009
...Sukhdev Sandhu finds nothing cooking in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen Poor Monica Ali. Three books into her career and her publisher is already rewriting her history, describing her new novel, In the Kitchen, as a ...
Thelondonpaper, January 6, 2009
...placated by this exquisite collection of short stories, themed on the humanising power of music. In the Kitchen Monica Ali Doubleday (7 May) Her second novel, Alentejo Blue, was set in Portugal, but Ali is back in contemporary London for the ...
Monica Ali's Books
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In the KitchenBooker Prize-shortlisted author Monica Ali's "mesmerizing" (Entertainment Weekly) novel brings readers into the vivid world of a London restaurant.Read More
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Brick LaneAfter an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where...Read More
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