Andrea Levy

eBook, ePUB

Small Island (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

Beschreibung

"Levy's beautifully wrought novel is a window into 1948 England . . . A bristling, funny, angry tale of love and sacrifice." - Entertainment Weekly The Basis for the PBS Masterpiece Classic Winner of the Orange Prize and Whitbread Book of the Year 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 from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. Told in these four voices, Small Islandis 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-in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life. "Andrea Levy gives us a new, urgent take on our past." - Vogue "A perfectly crafted tale of crossed lives and oceans . . . Happily, the hype is warranted- Small Islandis a triumph." - San Francisco Chronicle "Levy tells a good story, and she tells it well-using narrative voices across time and space as she revisits the conventions of the historical novel and imagines the hopes and pains of the immigrant's saga anew." - The Washington Post

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Autor

After she passed away on the 14th of February 2019, the Bookseller wrote: 'Andrea Levy will be remembered as a novelist who broke out of the confines assigned to her by prejudice to become a both a forerunner of Black British excellence and a great novelist by any standards.' Born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948, Andrea Levy wrote the novels that she had always wanted to read as a young woman, engaging books that reflect the experiences of black Britons and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean. She was described by BBC News as 'a writer who tackled important social issues . . . her writing . . . witty, humane and often moving, and full of richly drawn characters'. She was the author of six books, including SMALL ISLAND, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Whitbread book of the Year, and was adapted for TV and for the stage, by the National Theatre. It was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Her most recent novel, THE LONG SONG, won the Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was adapted for TV by the BBC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429901079
• Artikelnr.: 39938419

Rezensionen

'A brilliantly deft and humane account of two ordinary couples in post-war London' Evening Standard Evening Standard