Andrea Levy

From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy, Orange Prize winning author of SMALL ISLAND, comes this breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this...

The multi-award-winning ?Small Island? is the story of two couples: Gilbert and Hortense who come from Jamaica to live in post-war Britain, and Queenie and Bernard, who (willingly and unwillingly) end up putting them up in their London house. Told in sections through each of their voices, the book builds into a picture of two very different worlds...

Powieść uhonorowana najważniejszymi europejskimi nagrodami literackimi (Whitebread Award, Orange Prize, Commonwealth Prize). Losy powojennej emigracji - w tle wojna, miłość i uprzedzenia rasowe. Akcję książki przeplatają liczne retrospekcje, ilustrujące przeszłość czwórki bohaterów. Londyn, 1848. Do Anglii dociera pierwsza fala imigracji z dawnych...