
Small Island: A Novel
Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for FictionA Picador Original Trade PaperbackHortense 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 farme...
File Size: 578 KB
Print Length: 448 pages
Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (April 1, 2010)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B003DVG7OQ
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“I absolutely LOVED this book. Skillfully written with well-developed characters. This was the first time I'd ever read a book dealing with the subject of Jamaicans immigrating to England after WWII. It was an entirely unknown subject to me. The a...”
'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 that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.
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