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ANDREA LEVY - GEBRAUCHT SMALL ISLAND (REVIEW) -...

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 farmer'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.  Born in
1956 to Jamaican parents  Andrea Levy is the author of three previous novels and has received a
British Arts Council Writers Award in addition to the Orange Prize and Whitbread distinctions.
She lives and works in London.

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