Brick lane

At the tender age of eighteen, Nazneen´s life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of plats in London´s East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), her sorely tests her compliance. But Nazneed submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until she becomes aware of young radical, Karim.