The Novel, published in 2004, tells the story of post-war Caribbean migration through four narrators – Hortense and Gilbert, who migrate from Jamaica to London ...
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Set in post WWII England and Jamaica this book explores the not so pretty legacy of colonial Britain. The story centers on British racism and class distinctions ...
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Small Island is the fourth novel of the British author Andrea Levy, portray the life of the Jamaican immigrants in England after WW2, and their struggle to ...
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Set mainly in the British Empire of 1948, this story of emigration, loss and love follows four characters—two Jamaicans and two Britons—as they struggle to find ...
Small Island
Novel by Andrea Levy
Originally published: 2004
Author: Andrea Levy
Awards: Orange Prize for Fiction; Whitbread Book of the Year; Commonwealth Writers' Prize
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Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering ...
About the book. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun.
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns ...
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Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.
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