The Guardian First Book Award 2003 Longlist
Explore The Guardian First Book Award 2003 longlist, featuring standout debut authors like Monica Ali's Brick Lane, celebrating the best new voices in fiction and nonfiction from the 2003 award.
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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.
