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Tim Lott
I thoroughly recommend it - for once a novel actually deserves the accolade 'unique'.
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'Daunting and completely extraordinary...excavates...the East End's Brick Lane with such depth and gusto it leaves you breathless'
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an extraordinary novel, if 'novel' is the right word to describe a sequence of interconnected chapters that narrate the lives of some of the past and present inhabitants of Brick Lane in East London: pre-Romans, Romans, Danish invaders, Polish Jews and homesick Bangladeshis all make their appearances in this complex narrative sequence that plays with time, place and literary genres in sometimes disorienting ways.
Gavron has clearly done a vast amount of research, but his invocations of the wide array of lives lived over the centuries on this 'acre of barren ground' are never weighed down by the historical details, and in spite of the book's episodic structure, the narrative tension is maintained right until the end. Brilliant: 10/10.
Gavron has clearly done a vast amount of research, but his invocations of the wide array of lives lived over the centuries on this 'acre of barren ground' are never weighed down by the historical details, and in spite of the book's episodic structure, the narrative tension is maintained right until the end. Brilliant: 10/10.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An extraordinarily and strikingly original take on the rich history of Brick Lane, weaving historical and fictional characters in an informative, entertaining and hugely readable way.
Format:Paperback
This rather odd book is a kind of history of the Brick Lane area in East London, or it could be a novel. It is a collection of incidents, imaginative and factual, that have occurred there, at whatever period in history. Some of them don't seem to have any relationship to any of the others and it is difficult to identify any commonality. As you would expect, migration is a strong element. It is cumulatively quite effective - I like the doing of history through the combination of the documentary with what may have been people's subjective experiences. What's missing is any kind of analysis or general account, a contextualisation of the events which, to be fair, would probably make the book what it is not.
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