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Original Title:	Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
ISBN:	0719565561 (ISBN13: 9780719565564)
Edition Language:	English

Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End

Tarquin Hall

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4 | 419 Users | 49 Reviews

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Title	:	Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
Author	:	Tarquin Hall
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2006 by John Murray
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Travel. Biography Memoir. Biography

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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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A kaleidoscopic account of a posh man's brush with the East End of London.

It's about the author's year of living in the East End of London, so there's no real plot or story line or ending. I enjoyed the characters and he managed to get the level of detail right. It was interesting.

A memoir of living in Londons East End, Salaam Brick Lane is an enjoyable if overly pointed tale.Moving back to London after several years abroad, Tarquin Hall discovers the only place he can afford is the East End, Londons notorious neighborhood known for its poverty and crime. For centuries, its stood as the place where immigrants begin their life in England, and the current iteration is composed of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Mr. Hall does a nice job of interweaving his

All in all I really liked this, but: T. H. could really have added a picture or two of his fiancée's roof garden. (BTW, having lived together all this time, by the time they get married, they already seem like an old married couple ...) And doesn't everybody know about the English being a "mongrel race"? Why did one of his new friends spend such an age with pointless research??

This is my first review of many on Goodreads that will chart my journey on a Round the World trip through literature... which commenced May 22nd 2009. I am travelling the globe through literature (fiction and narrative non-fiction), starting in London, England.I have mapped out a route around the world, as well as a book (or books for larger countries) to represent each nation that I am travelling to.Just so you know, my constraints are:1) Book must be fiction or narrative non-fiction (i.e. not

I could be biased because I currently live in the East End, but I absolutely loved reading about the history and the author's impressions of the area. Excellent cast of characters, each with their own fascinating and often heartbreaking stories. I moved to the area 8 years ago (and roughly 8 years after the year in question); it has clearly changed a great deal since Mr Hall was there, and is still doing so at quite some pace.

Three and a half stars, really. I love Hall's Vish Puri mystery series, and knowing he is also a journalist, I wanted to read some of his non-fiction. This is a beautifully written account of one year early in his life that he spent living on Brick Lane in London, not the neighborhood he was hoping for when he moved back to his home city after some years abroad in India--but all he could afford. Brick Lane and its East End surrounds used to be the Cockney neighborhood of Eliza Doolittle fame,