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Andrea Levy ISBN: 0312424671
Format: Paperback, 448pp
Pub. Date: April 2005
Publisher: Picador USA
BBP Sales Rank: 3,768
List Price: $14.00
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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 Island is 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
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