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Mrs Azad continued. “Listen, when I’m in Bangladesh I put on a sari and cover my head
and all that. But here I go out to work. I work with white girls and I’m just one of them. If I
want to come home and eat curry, that’s my business. Some women spend ten, twenty years
here and they sit in the kitchen grinding spices all day and learn only two words of
English.” She looked at Nazneen […]. “They go around covered from head to toe, in their
little walking prisons, and when someone calls to them in the streets they are upset. The
society is racist. The society is all wrong. Everything should change for them. They don’t
have to change one thing. That,” she said, stabbing in the air, “is the tragedy.”
The room was quiet. The air was too bright, and the hard light hid nothing. The moments
came and went, with nothing to ease their passing.
“Each one has his own tragedy,” said Chanu at last. His lips and brow worked feverishly
on some private business.
By Monica Ali from Brick Lane, London: Doubleday, 2003.
(A division of Transworld Publishers, London.)
2 sturdy strong and firm – 3 grunt make a rough sound (grunzen) – 4 quiver shake slightly – 8 Salaam Ale-
Koum a common greeting in Muslim countries such as Bangladesh, meaning “Peace be upon you!” –
27 hovel a flat not fit to live in because it is small, dirty and damp – 28 dal a cheap and simple dish common in
India and Bangladesh (Linsengericht) – 29 bloat out cause to swell – 31 those letters after his name initials
showing his university degrees – 39 sanity a healthy mind – 50 sari a long piece of cotton cloth that is
wrapped around the body and typically worn by Indian and Bangladeshi women
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ISBN-10: 3-12-547186-9
ISBN-13: 978-3-12-547186-3
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