Small Island

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  • 448

    Pages
  • 9780755355952

    ISBN
  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 389 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 30 APRIL 2009

    Publish Date
  • 35 mm

    Spine Width

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    Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levys SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war and love. It has now been adapted into a major BBC TV drama. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Blighs neighbo Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levys SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war and love. It has...  Read More

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    Andrea Levy

    In 1948 Andrea Levys father sailed from Jamaica to England on the Empire Windrush ship and her mother joined him soon after. Andrea was born in London in 1956, growing up black in what was still a very white England. This experience has given her an complex perspective on the country of her birth.

    Andrea Levy did not begin writing until she was in her mid-thirties. At that time there was little written about the black British experience in Britian. After attending writing workshops Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read – entertaining novels that reflect the experiences of black Britons, that look closely and perceptively at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean. In her first three novels she explored - from different perspectives - the problems faced by black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants. In her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Every Light in the House Burnin (1994), the story is of a Jamaican family living in London in the 1960s. Never Far from Nowhere (1996), her second, is set during the 1970s and tells the story of two very different sisters living on a London council estate. In Fruit of the Lemon (1999), Faith Jackson, a young black woman, visits Jamaica after suffering a nervous breakdown and discovers a previously unknown personal history

    In her fourth novel Small Island Levy examines the experiences of those of her fathers generation who returned to Britain after being in the RAF during the Second World War. But more than just the story of the Jamaicans who came looking for a new life in the Mother Country, she explores the adjustments and problems faced by the English people whom those Jamaicans came to live amongst. Immigration changes everyones lives and in Small Island Levy examines not only the conflicts of two cultures thrown together after a terrible war, but also the kindness and strength people

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