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Small Island Spiral-Bound | 2010-03-30

Andrea Levy

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Small Island has sold a million copies worldwide. This new edition of the award-winning novel ties in with the BBC /Masterpiece theatre adaptation, and the publication of her new novel The Long Song (FSG)

"It's all here: exceptional dialogue, clever narrative, and a rich story that tells us something new about our shared history on a planet that is increasingly small and yet will always be inhabited by individuals possessed, at our best, by singular consciousness and desire." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Andrea Levy gives us a new, urgent take on our past." --Vogue

"[A] perfectly crafted tale of crossed lives and oceans…Happily, the hype is warranted--Small Island is a triumph." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Honest, skillful, thoughtful, and important. This is Andrea Levy's big book." --The Guardian

"Andrea Levy's beautifully wrought novel is a window into 1948 England…A bristling, funny, angry tale of love and sacrifice." --Entertainment Weekly

"Levy tells a good story, and she tells it well--using narrative voices across time and space as she revisits the conventions of the historical novel and imagines the hopes and pains of the immigrant's saga anew." --The Washington Post


Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0312429525
Item Weight: 0.8 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
"There is great skill in the way she presents characters and dialogue; she has powers of observation and an ear for language that make ehr books a pleasure to read."--Times Literary Supplement

"Familiar cultural observations in closely observed and surprising lives . . . Levy's writing deftly illuminates the complex and contradictory motives behind each character's behavior."--The New Yorker

"A breakthrough . . . Memorable characters [and] a wry and penetrating humor . . . Levy tells a good story, and she tells it well--using narrative voices across time and space as she revisits the conventions of the historical novel and imagines the hopes and pains of the immigrant's saga anew."--The Washington Post

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, Small Island won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. She lives in London.