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Salaam Brick Lane A Year in the New East End

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ISBN-10: 0719565561

ISBN-13: 9780719565564

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tarquin Hall

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After ten 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 fiancée 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. At night, traffic lights lit up the ceiling and police sirens wailed into the early hours. Yet, as Hall got…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Tarquin Hall is a British writer and Journalist. He was born in London in 1969 and has livied in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey, and traveled extensively in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. He is the author of three books and dozens of articles that have appeared in many British newspapers and magazines. He lives in the UK and India and is married to BBC reporter and presenter Anu Anand.