by Monica Ali · Emecé Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495908643
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Siete mares, trece ríos» is the contemporary fiction novel by Monica Ali, published by Emecé Editores in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi woman, moves to London after an arranged marriage to Chanu, twenty years her senior. The novel follows her adaptation to a strange country and culture and addresses identity, immigration, family tensions, and the desire for independence of a woman who begins to question her role.
The translation is by Mirta López Olle and the work belongs to Emecé's Lingua Franca collection. The original title is Brick Lane.
For those seeking literary fiction about immigration, identity, and life in London, with a female protagonist.
Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English descent. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. She has also published four other novels. Her fifth novel, Love Marriage, was published by Virago Press in February 2022 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
