num_pages: 368
description: Brick Lane today is a place of extremes – a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths, and interspersing these with maps and photography, On Brick Lane is a one-of-a-kind chronicle of one of London's most remarkable streets. Bringing to life the memories and realities of Brick Lane's many communities, Rachel Lichtenstein harnesses the voices of the famous, the infamous and the obscure, merging memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and local history. The result is as vibrant and fascinating as the neighbourhood it so movingly celebrates.
language: English
title: On Brick Lane
titlecomplete: On Brick Lane
genres: British Literature, History, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 195
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize
publisher: Hamish Hamilton UK