by Andrea Levy · Headline Review · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755307517
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«Small Island» is the historical novel by Andrea Levy, published by Headline Review in hardcover (448 pages, in English).
In 1948 London, four voices intertwine: Queenie rents rooms to Jamaican immigrants; Gilbert, a former RAF serviceman; his wife Hortense, newly arrived with hopes; and Bernard, the absent husband. The novel addresses racism, social classes, and the search for identity in the postwar period.
Winner of the Orange Prize 2004 and the Whitbread Award for Best Novel and Book of the Year 2004; in 2005 it received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Recommended for reading groups and for those seeking historical fiction about Caribbean immigration and racism in postwar England.
Andrea Levy was an English author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities.
