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Title
Small island / Andrea Levy.
Author
Levy, Andrea, 1956-2019.
Edition
1st Picador ed.
ISBN
9780312424671 (pbk.)
0312424671 (pbk.)
0312424671 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Picador, 2005.
Language
English
Description
441 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PR6112.E889 S63 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
"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 recieved as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmers daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage,untill the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. " From the bookjacket.
Awards
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2004.
Winner of the Whitbread book of the year 2004.
Winner of the Whitbread book of the year 2004.
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