In fact, Ali is on the near side of British culture, not far from the middle. When Monica Ali set out to write Brick Lane, she was - according to Harriet Lane, who interviewed her for the Observer on the eve of the novel's publication in June 2003 - "already very conscious that she was on the far side of two cultures". Every individual, every community ever to be written about suffers the same shock of non-recognition, and feels the same sense of invasion and betrayal. A character is, as it were, graven in stone when you are charactered you will last for ever, or pretty nearly, but what lasts will not be you. They will take your reality, pull strands from it and weave them with their own impressions into a tissue that is more real than your reality because it is text. W riters are treacherous they will sneak up on you and write about you in terms that you don't recognise.
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