Mali otok
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- Author: Levy Andrea
- Publisher: Algoritam
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 56846
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Mali otok
Levy Andrea
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Andrea Levy: Small Island
In the novel "Small Island", Andrea Levy describes the life of the first generation of Caribbean emigrants who came to Great Britain after the Second World War. The plot is set in 1948, and the main protagonists are Jamaican Gilbert Joseph, who during the war was a volunteer in the Royal Air Force and his young, curious and cheerful wife Hortense, who expects a new, better life in London. Andrea Levy narrates the events by changing the perspective from face to face: everyone tells their story, their experiences, traumas and humiliations.
In the book we also meet their landlady Queenie, her husband who comes back from the war disappointed, and many neighbors who do not approve of the presence of new settlers and publicly show their own racism. Andrea Levy masterfully builds the story, putting it together from different time segments, and combining at the same time poignancy and cheerfulness, harshness and wit. Andrea Levy's mastery of storytelling is manifested in the different speech intonations and linguistic nuances with which she created her characters-narrators. The translator Marko Kovačić excelled in the job of this complex and sensitive transmission, and gave each of the characters personal speech identities.
The critics evaluated "Small Island" as an event of the decade in the presentation of the English past, those moments in which the country changed significantly culturally. Andrea Levy received a number of literary awards for her novel, the most significant of which is the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004.
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- Author: Levy Andrea
- Publisher: Algoritam
- Year of publication:2007
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:439
- Dimensions:16x24 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Hardcover
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