Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize (без автора); Headline, 2022

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh’s neighbours don’t approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, she has little choice in the matter. Gilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn’t receive the welcome he was expecting, and it’s desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie’s door. Gilbert’s wife Hortense, who for years has longer for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. Small Island explores a point in England’s past when the country began to change. In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-0-7553-0750-0
Автор(ы)	без автора
Автор	Levy A.
Авторы	Levy A.
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Год публикации	2006
Издатель	Headline
Издательство	Headline Publishing Group
Кол-во страниц	560
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	560
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий
Переплёт	Мягкий
Формат	129x198
Язык издания	Английский
Язык	Английский