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Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End

of Tarquin Hall (Goodreads Author)

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After 10 years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiancee in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on London's Brick Lane. A grimy skylight provided the only window on their new world—a filthy, noisy street where drug dealers and prostitutes peddled their wares and tramps urinated on the pavements. Yet, as Hall got to know Brick Lane, he discovered beneath its unlovely surface an inner world where immigrants and asylum seekers struggle to better themselves and dream of escape. Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of discovery by an outsider in his own native city.

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Nonfiction Nonfiction Memoir Travel India Biography Biography Memoir International History British Literature Autobiography

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 288 pages
  • Publisher John Murray
  • Publication Date April 1st 2006
  • First Publication Not informed
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780719565564
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Non-Fiction
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