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Small Island

Andrea Levy

Paperback | Pages: 441 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 25813 Users | 1612 Reviews

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Title	:	Small Island
Author	:	Andrea Levy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 441 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2005 by Picador USA (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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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 the immigrant's life.

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Original Title:	Small Island
ISBN:	0312424671 (ISBN13: 9780312424671)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom) British Empire,1948
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (2004), Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (2004), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2005)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 25813 Users | 1612 Reviews

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What happens when young Jamaican men join the war effort for Britain against Germany? The Jamaicans are educated and consider themselves part of the British empire and children of the mother country of England. Unfortunately the people of England doesn't seem to recognize the Jamaicans; they don't know where Jamaica is and to them Jamaicans are just black people, inferior to white. Prejudice, alive and well in 1948 Britain.In this story we follow Gilbert and Hortense, a Jamaican couple; and

This was a very heartfelt and moving story. I throughly enjoyed Levys writing style. It was so picturesque that I felt like I was also in Jamaica, England, and India along with the storiess characters.This story was a warm breath of fresh air on a cool early fall day.

Books like this are why I study English literature at university, books like this are why I read so ferociously. Ferocious reading? Now thats an interesting image. But, honestly, Im careful when I read. I wouldnt want to scratch those pages! But, Im digressing here. This book is an eye-opener; it is an excellent teacher of part of English cultural history. Could you imagine fighting for a country not your own, and then being treated by the citizens of that country like dirt? Those you ended up

Andrea Levy's Small Island is a book about misconceptions of identity and race during World War II era Britain. The story revolves around Jamaicans who move to England as they believe they are "British" as they feel entitled to all the Mother Country has to offer. What they realize is that not everything is as it may seem. The best feature of this book is the way Levy tries to explain "colonial politics." During the height of colonialism, European rulers instructed their subjects in Africa, Asia

I loved this book, but I realize that I am very biased because I am Jamaican, and have many relatives who emigrated to the UK from Jamaica, so the characters were immediately real and recognizable to me. Some reviewers have complained that her use of dialect was heavy-handed, but from my perspective, she actually tones down Jamaican Patois (also called Jamaican Creole) significantly to make it understandable to non-Jamaicans. On a visit to Jamaica last year, I heard her interviewed and she said

The current Windrush scandal / national embarrassment caused me to revisit my review of this book - as the Windrush is crucial to the plot and the author's own parents sailed to England on the Windrush in 1948.Multi-narrator story which also moves between the past of the various characters and a present narrative in 1948 that brings them all together about:Gilbert Joseph a Jamaican who joins the RAF, but finds himself restricted to being a driver. In Jamaica he raises funds from Hortense to

Wow. I wish that could be my entire review. It feels like "wow" should be sufficient. But in the interest of getting this book into the hands of as many people as possible, I'll attempt to do this book some justice. With NO Spoilers. No worries.This is not a book I would normally choose to read. (I read it with a book group.) The description made it seem depressing, and just too "heavy" for me. However, Andrea Levy is such a gifted writer that she is able to breathe humor into even desolate