{"product_id":"small-island-andrea-levy-paperback","title":"Small Island -- Andrea Levy, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn international bestseller. Andrea Levy's \u003ci\u003eSmall Island\u003c\/i\u003e won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\nHortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in these four voices, \u003ci\u003eSmall Island \u003c\/i\u003eis a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Andrea Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.25\" H x 5.35\" L x 1.25\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780312429522\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67442552406320,"sku":"9780312429522","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780312429522.jpg?v=1785781563","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/small-island-andrea-levy-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}