Small Island by Andrea Levy

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Small Island is an international bestseller. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It has now been adapted for the screen as a coproduction of the BC and Masterpiece/WGBH Boston.

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 life.

Andrea Levy (1956-2019) was the author of Little Island, which won the Whitbread Award (now the Costa Award), the Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women's Prize for Fiction), and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She was born in London, England, to Jamaican parents. Her novel was adapted for television by BBC Masterpiece Classic, which received an International Emmy for best TV movie/miniseries. Andrea's other works include the Man Booker Prize contender The Long Song, which was later adapted for television by the BBC, and Fruit of the Lemon.

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ISBN 13	9780312424671
ISBN 10	0312424671
Title	Small Island
Author	Andrea Levy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Picador USA
Year published	2005-04-01
Number of pages	441
Prizes	Winner of Costa Book Awards (Novel) 2004, Winner of Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year) 2004, Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2004, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2005
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