Small Island
by Andrea Levy
amaica to London. The welcome was not what they promised.
you want to understand the Windrush generation through the people who lived it
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1948. Hortense and Gilbert arrive in London from Jamaica — British subjects, holders of British passports, believers in the mother country they were taught about in school. What they find is a cramped room, casual racism, and a country that invited them and then refused to recognize them. Levy weaves their story with that of Queenie, their white English landlady, and her husband Bernard, returned from the war changed in ways he can't articulate. The dispatch that put the Windrush generation on the literary map. Essential for understanding what Britain actually did with its empire.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Jamaica • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Jamaican author
- Themes
- After EmpireBorderlands
