Small Island
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780755355952 (0755355954)
Publish date: September 17th 2009
Publisher: Headline Review
Pages no: 533
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary,
Modern,
World War II
I know quite a bit about the war years (~1915-50) in Britain, but I learned more reading this book that covers the experience of Jamaican British immigrants and soldiers during and after WWII. The most surprising historical information I got was how Britain coped with Yankee soldiers expecting Brits...
Small Island is a good, solid book in nearly every way, although for me it didn’t have that something extra that would take it up to 5 stars.The frame story is set in London, 1948: a black Jamaican couple, Hortense and Gilbert, move to England and rent a room from a white woman, Queenie, whose husba...
i'm ashamed to say that i abandoned this book because of another and i still can't understand why. it was truly interesting, i was reading it eagerly, then somehow i opened another book and haven't came back. such a fickle reader am i. i've extended the borrowing time once so going back to the libra...
This is a great book which tells the story of Jamaican immigrants to Britain after WW2. It takes a while to get into as the story is told from the point of view of different characters but once the book gets going the plot takes different turns and each of the main characters is developed excellent...
“Yes sir, British, and so is your mother?” he mumbled, in a hesitant way that made me wonder whether anything I was saying was going into his head or merely circling around it searching for somewhere solid to land." p 157
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