by Andrea Levy · Tinder Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755307500
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«Small Island» is the historical novel by Andrea Levy, published by Tinder Press in paperback (560 pages, in English).
In 1948 London, Queenie rents rooms to Jamaican immigrants; Gilbert, a Jamaican ex-RAF serviceman, faces racism on his return; and his wife Hortense arrives hoping for a better life. Levy addresses the legacy of Empire, prejudice, and the wounds of war.
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Book of the Year in 2004, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2005.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary British narrative, interested in the postwar period and the migrant experience.
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.
