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Small Island (Broché)

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Author: Andrea Levy
ISBN: 9780755307500

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Women's Prize for Fiction

Andrea Levy

Tinder Press
Paru le : 17/03/2005

It's 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighboors don't approve... > Lire la suite

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It's 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighboors don't approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when, or even if, her husband will return. What else can she do ? Gilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn't receive the welcome he was expecting, and it's desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie's door.
Gilbert's wife Hortense, who for years has longed for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was...

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Date de parution : 17/03/2005
Editeur : Tinder Press
ISBN : 0-7553-0750-X
EAN : 9780755307500
Format : Grand Format
Présentation : Broché
Nb. de pages : 533 pages
Poids : 0.395 Kg
Dimensions : 13,0 cm × 20,0 cm × 3,2 cm

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Biographie d'Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948. After attending writing workshops when she was in her mid-thirties, Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read — entertaining novels that reflect the experiences of black Britons, which look at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean.
She has written six books, including SMALL ISLAND, which was the unique winner of both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Book of the Year, in addition to the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Orange Prize "Best of the Best". Her most recent novel, THE LONG SONG, won the Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.