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Salaam Brick Lane

A Year in the New East End

By Tarquin Hall

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| Paperback | 9780719565564

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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 Continue

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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  • Way out East, innit?

    Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End by Tarquin Hall 256pp, John Murray, £16.99 When Jack London came to London in 1902, he stayed in Highgate and contacted Thomas Cook, the travel agent, for information on how best to approach his next stop ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0719565561
  • ISBN-13: 9780719565564
  • Publisher: John Murray
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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