by Andrea Levy · Headline Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747246534
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«Every Light in the House Burnin'» is Andrea Levy's first novel, published by Headline Publishing Group in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The protagonist, Angela, is the youngest daughter of a Jamaican family settled in north London. While her sick father navigates the British healthcare system, she reflects on her childhood in a council flat in Highbury and her parents' arrival from Jamaica in 1948. A look at identity and the migrant experience in the UK.
Andrea Levy's first novel, longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. The author won that prize with Small Island.
For readers of literary fiction and family narrative, with an interest in the migrant experience and generational memory.
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.
