Small Island
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Großartige Geschichte von 4 grundverschiedenen Menschen, die Leben, Denkweisen &Handeln in Jamaica & England in den 1940ern heraufbeschwört.
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Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, deftly brings two bleak families into crisp focus. First a Jamaican family, including the well-intentioned Gilbert, who can never manage to say or do exactly the right thing; Romeo Michael, who leaves a wake of women in his path; and finally, Hortense, whose primness belies her huge ambition to become English in every way possible. The other unhappy family is English, starting with Queenie, who escapes the drudgery of being a butcher's daughter only to marry a dull banker. As the chapters reverse chronology and the two groups collide and finally mesh, the book unfolds through time like a photo album, and Levy captures the struggle between class, race, and sex with a humor and tenderness that is both authentic and bracing. The book is cinematic in the best way--lighting up London's bombed-out houses and wartime existence with clarity and verve while never losing her character's voice or story. --Meg Halverson
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Aktuelle Ausgabe
ISBN:9781472211064
Sprache:Englisch
Ausgabe:Taschenbuch
Umfang:544 Seiten
Verlag:Tinder Press
Erscheinungsdatum:06.06.2013