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Jan 1, 2004 · On the surface, Small Island looks like a book about immigration (specifically, post-WWII Jamaican immigration to the UK), but to me it felt more like a book about the fall of the British Empire. The book begins with a prologue set in the early 20th century, when a young Queenie visits the British Empire Exhibition, showcasing the empire at the ...
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- Andrea Levy
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Small Island is a novel written by British author Andrea Levy. 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 in 1948, and the English couple, Queenie and Bernard, in whose house in London Hortense and Gilbert find lodgings.
Jan 17, 2010 · The good thing about adaptations -film or TV- is that it usually prompts me to pick up a book that would otherwise remain unread for even longer and last year was The Reader; Simon read Small Island so he could watch the adaptation and that has inspireded you and I suspect me to read it at long last.
Book Summary. A courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers. Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact.
Mar 30, 2010 · Small Island won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. Selling over a million copies worldwide, Small Island was also adapted for the small screen in a critically acclaimed series that aired on BBC and will debut on PBS’s Masterpiece Classic on April 18 and 25, 2010.
- Andrea Levy
- $9.99
- Picador USA
Apr 3, 2005 · SMALL ISLAND By Andrea Levy. 439 pp. Picador. Paper, $14. IN June 1948, the S.S. Empire Windrush sailed in to London's Tilbury docks carrying 492 men from the West Indies. In search of a better ...
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Her 2004 novel, Small Island, won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Book of the Year, and the Commonwealth Writers Price. Over the course of her literary career, Levy has written five novels and several short stories. She currently resides in London.
