The Long Song

Levy, Andrea

ISBN 10: 1405507802 ISBN 13: 9781405507806

Casa editrice: Hachette Audio, 2010

Riassunto

You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.

July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse.

Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a book they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.

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Descrizione del libro:

A moving tale set in Jamaica during the last years of slavery from Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy

L'autore:

Andrea Levy is a child of the Windrush. She is the daughter of one of the pioneers who sailed from Jamaica to England on the Empire Windrush ship. Her father and later her mother came to Britain in 1948 in search of a better life. For the British-born Levy this meant that she grew up black in a very white Britain. This experience has given her an unusual perspective on the country of her birth - neither feeling totally part of the society nor a total outsider.

Andrea Levy did not begin writing until she was in her mid-thirties. At that time there was little written about the black British experience in Britain. After attending writing workshops Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read. She has written four previous novels, EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE BURNIN', NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE, FRUIT OF THE LEMON and SMALL ISLAND.

Andrea Levy is a Londoner. She lives and works in the city she loves.

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• Editore: Hachette Audio
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1405507802
• ISBN 13: 9781405507806
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Numero di pagine: 704