Posted on 17/06/06
Monica Ali tours Portugal -- quickly
Alentejo BlueBy Monica AliScribner, 226 pages, $29.95For Alentejo Blue, Monica Ali has left London's community of Bangladeshi immigrants, the densely populous setting explored in her celebrated debut, Brick Lane, and embarked on a tour through the community of English migrants in Portugal's under-populated Alentejo region. "Tour" rather than "explore" is the key. The equivalent of a vivid holiday snap or postcard, each chapter in Ali's second novel features a different character framed against the picturesque backdrop of Mamarrosa, a village that could serve as a cipher for almost any village in the EU. Call it Euro Ltd., Euro Inc.
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