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The Long Song
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Author : Andrea Levy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2010-04-20
The Long Song written by Andrea Levy and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with Fiction categories.
You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing 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 its 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 called 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 also tells 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 novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.
The Long Song
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Author : Andrea Levy
language : en
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Release Date : 2021-10-07
The Long Song written by Andrea Levy and has been published by Nick Hern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with categories.
A new stage adaptation of the award-winning novel by Suhayla El-Bushra.
The Long Song
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Author : Andrea Levy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-02-04
The Long Song written by Andrea Levy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-04 with Fiction categories.
Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell. A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica, for those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12 Years a Slave. 'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial Times 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 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 novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.
The Long Song Of Tchaikovsky Street
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Author : Pieter Waterdrinker
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2022-02-01
The Long Song Of Tchaikovsky Street written by Pieter Waterdrinker and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.’ One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker’s door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven-thousand bibles into the Soviet Union. Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator ... with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in Saint Petersburg, where he lives with his Russian wife and three cats, Pieter reflects on his personal history in the Soviet Union, as well as the century of revolutions that took place in and around his street. A master storyteller, he blends history with memoir to create an ode to the divided soul of Russia and an unputdownable account of his own struggles with life, literature, and love.
Small Island
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Author : Andrea Levy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Small Island written by Andrea Levy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation, it was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. 'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' Guardian It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours don't approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, she has little choice in the matter. Gilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn't receive the welcome he was expecting, and it's desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie's door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, who for years has longer for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. Small Island explores a point in England's past when the country began to change. In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit. 'An engrossing read - slyly funny, passionately angry and wholly involving' Daily Mail 'Gives us a new urgent take on our past' Vogue
The Longest Whale Song
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Author : Jacqueline Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
The Longest Whale Song written by Jacqueline Wilson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Ella's mum is in a deep coma, having just had a new baby. That means Ella has to live with Jack, her hopeless stepfather, and cope with her tiny newborn brother, as well as worrying about Mum. The only thing that's going right is her school project. It's all about whales and how they sing out to each other to attract a mate - sometimes for hours. Maybe a whale song could reach Mum, wherever she is, and bring her back to Ella and baby Samson. Surely it's worth a try?
The Love Songs Of W E B Du Bois
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Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2021-08-24
The Love Songs Of W E B Du Bois written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Fiction categories.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Deeply moving’ Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ‘Remarkable’ Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) ‘A sweeping epic ... Outstanding’ Daily Mail
Every Light In The House Burnin
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Author : Andrea Levy
language : en
Publisher: Headline
Release Date : 2010-06-24
Every Light In The House Burnin written by Andrea Levy and has been published by Headline this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-24 with Fiction categories.
The remarkable, emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, from the critically aclaimed Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. 'Better opportunity' - that's why Angela's dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her mum joined him in his one room in Earl's Court... ...Twenty years and four children later, Mr Jacob has become seriously ill and starts to move unsteadily through the care of the National Health Service. As Angela, his youngest, tries to help her mother through this ordeal, she finds herself reliving her childhood years, spent on a council estate in Highbury.
London Labour And The London Poor
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Author : Henry Mayhew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
London Labour And The London Poor written by Henry Mayhew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Crime categories.
The Music Of China S Ethnic Minorities
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Author : Yongxiang Li
language : en
Publisher: 中信出版社
Release Date : 2006
The Music Of China S Ethnic Minorities written by Yongxiang Li and has been published by 中信出版社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Ethnomusicology categories.
China boasts many great musical traditions, these traditions have made an indelible mark on Chinese culture that has been felt by every generation.