Small Island

English

ISBN: 0312424671

EAN: 9780312424671

Category: Fiction / Historical

Publisher: Picador

Release Date: 02/26/2005

Synopsis: Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction A Picador Original Trade Paperback Hortense 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 farmers 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 Islandis 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 immigrants life.

Awards: Commonwealth Writers Prize – null  Commonwealth Writers Prize – null  Commonwealth Writers Prize – null  Commonwealth Writers Prize – null 

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Small Island

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.91 inches

Width: 5.57 inches

Length: 8.26 inches

Weight: 12.17 oz

Pages: 448