• KALAPALA KAVITHA
• Dr.G. CHENNA REDDY

Monica Ali is one of the chief British authors of present time who is best known for her Diaspora writing. She was born in the year 1967 in Dhaka, East Pakistan to Joyce and Hatem Ali. She moved to England with her parents when she was only three. Ali began her tutoring in Bolton School in Great Manchester. She proceeded with her study in Oxford University where she concentrated on Philosophy, Governmental issues and Economics. She wedded to Simon Torrance later in life. Ali got chose as one of Grant’s “Best Young British Novelist of the Decade” in the following year she was granted as “The Newcomer of the Year” Monica Ali made a literacy splash with a debut novel; Brick Lane - was short listed for the Man Booker Prize and translated into dozens of languages. Her first novel Brick Lane (2003) is an epic saga about a Bangladeshi family living in the UK and explores the British immigrant experience. It was made into a film in 2007.Her second novel, Alentijo Blue set in Portugal, was published in 2006 which is a story of uprooting and modernization told through the lives of local people. Alentejo Blue a string of loosely conjoined stories about English characters in Portuguese village (Mamarrosa). Her novel “In the kitchen” (2009) Monica wonderfully portrays the life struggles, desires, hardships of the common man and the executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot at the Imperial Hotel in London. In Untold Story, Monica imagines and analysis what might have happened if Princess Diana had survived that car crash in Paris — and then gone on to fake her own death and fabulously created the character.

Family, life, death, identity, individuality, independent, love, fate.

"THE THEMES OF IDENTITY AND DIASPORA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NOVEL BRICK LIME OF MONICA ALI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.f506-f509, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312560.pdf

"THE THEMES OF IDENTITY AND DIASPORA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NOVEL BRICK LIME OF MONICA ALI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. ppf506-f509, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312560.pdf