This novel is punctuated by occasional letters from the protagonist's sister, recounting her rapid job changes from garment factory worker to prostitute to resident at "Lovely" Begum's house for the destitute.
A minor character in this novel suffers a bizarre death when seventeen frozen cows fall on him in a slaughterhouse. In the last scene of this novel, the protagonist is blindfolded and taken to an ice skating rink. The circumstances of the protagonist's birth recur in this novel as a story called "How You Were Left to Your Fate." In this novel, an anti-Islam youth gang known as the Lion Hearts forms in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. This novel is punctuated by occasional letters from the protagonist's sister, recounting her rapid job changes from garment factory worker to prostitute to resident at "Lovely" Begum's house for the destitute. Germaine Greer backed an unsuccessful campaign launched by the (*) Sylheti community to stop a film adaptation of this novel. The protagonist of this novel begins an affair with the man who brings her sewing piecework, Karim, as a means of escaping from her dreary domestic life with her pretentious husband Charu. For 10 points, name this novel about Nazneen, an inhabitant of the title Bangladeshi neighborhood in London, written by Monica Ali.
A minor character in this novel suffers a bizarre death when seventeen frozen cows fall on him in a slaughterhouse.
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