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Small Island

Andrea Levy

Paperback | Pages: 441 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 25813 Users | 1612 Reviews

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

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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

I thought "Small Island" would be good since it won not only the Orange Prize (Britain's literary contest for women writers) but something called "The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best." Not to mention the Commonwealth Writers' prize and a bunch of other awards. And I was right - I devoured this book. Levy's amazing storytelling sucks you in from the beginning and makes you care about the characters, Jamaican immigrants to "the Mother Country" of England right after World War II, and a



Having now completed the book, below is recorded both how I reacted as I read and at the books conclusion. So far I have read about half and am letting off steam.I am having trouble with the following:1.Hortense. I cannot stand this woman; she is so uppity and thinks she is better than everyone else. I don't yet feel empathy for any of the other characters either.2.I do not appreciate the time shifts. I understand that in this way we are to get a deeper idea of the characters' pasts, and thus

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

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

Mixed feelings about this one; read very easily and the historical context is one that interests me. However it did not really do what I thought it set out do, which was to chronicle the early years of the Windrush generation. There are four narrators; Hortense and Gilbert from Jamaica and Queenie and Bernard who are English (although Bernard feels like a bit of an add on, arriving in the last quarter of the book). That makes the book feel a little disjointed. A great deal of time is also spent