{"id":7459,"date":"2007-05-04T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:40:40","slug":"prufrock-two-on-salaam-brick-lane-by-tarquin-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/prufrock-two-on-salaam-brick-lane-by-tarquin-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering East End"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bookdetails\">\n<div id=\"bookimage\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0719565561\/\"><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/salaam-brick-lane-tarquin-hall.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Discovering East End\" alt=\"image\" width=\"72\" height=\"112\" \/><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bookmaininfo\">\n<p class=\"booktitle\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Salaam Brick Lane<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookauthor\"><strong>By:<\/strong> Tarquin Hall<\/p>\n<p class=\"amazonlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0719565561\/\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!-- bookmaininfo --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- bookdetails --><\/p>\n<p>Long before he wrote a book dissing V.S. Naipaul, his one-time mentor, Paul Theroux wrote <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/014024980X\/\" title=\"The Great Railway Bazaar\">The Great Railway Bazaar<\/a><\/i> in which he remarked that though he went in search of trains, he discovered passengers instead. Much the same spirit animates Tarquin Hall&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0719565561\/\" title=\"Salaam Brick Lane\">Salaam Brick Lane<\/a><\/i>, a memoir of the year he spent in London&#8217;s East End, well worth reading for the many memorable characters Hall introduces us to&#8212;quirks and patois intact.\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s Ali, the harassed and loquacious slum landlord; Naziz, ex-street crook and self-taught pedant hoping for a better life; the irascible yet affectionate Sadie, plagued by memories of her Jewish upbringing; Aktar, the brooding Bengali anthropologist; and many more. Of course, the two central characters are Hall himself, and his fianc&#233;e Anu, attempting to create a future for themselves in London. <\/p>\n<p>Behind these human stories is the well-researched and highly-readable saga of how Brick Lane has played host to waves of immigrants over the centuries, from Irish to Jewish to Bangladeshi &#8211; and how this has redefined notions of &#8216;Englishness&#8217;.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>The only thing one didn&#8217;t like about the book? The title. ( Bit too Monica Ali, innit?) <\/p>\n<p>(The author and his wife are currently in India; they blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredcows.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Sacred Cows\">Sacred Cows<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Salaam Brick Lane By: Tarquin Hall Buy from Amazon.com Long before he wrote a book dissing V.S. 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