Arquivo

Nazneen recalls her childhood in Bangladesh. Her village had an idyllic beauty, but its oppressive social landscape sent her mother to seek her own death. Nazneen is married off to a man she has never met and flown to London’ Brick Lane neighbourhood to meet her new husband. Although she is told to be grateful for having married an educated man, she still finds Chanu a callous stranger. Cursed with a need to inflate his own importance, Chanu ignores his wife’ needs and presents the humiliations he experiences while trying to find work as evidence of his superior qualities. When he finally lands a menial job, he announces “I have become the driver of Kempton Cars!” as though he‚Äôd been appointed to the House of Lords. It’ hopeless: her husband rattles on about dead philosophers while all she wants is a nice sari, some meaning in life and a man to see her truly for who she is. All this will come, but at a price.