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The Long Song

by Andrea Levy
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The Long Song
The Long Song

Haunting journey through slavery's final days.

If you're drawn to stories with vivid historical settings and deep emotional undercurrents, "The Long Song" is a book that could resonate with you. Andrea Levy offers a window into the turbulent end of slavery in Jamaica, weaving a narrative that's as informative as it is moving. It's for anyone captivated by powerful storytelling that illuminates important, yet heartbreaking chapters of our past.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2010)
  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010)
  • Walter Scott Prize (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Long Song

by Andrea Levy
RM34.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9780755359424
Authors: Andrea Levy
Publisher: Headline Review
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Race
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 11131 readers)

Description

From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy, Orange Prize winning author of Small Island, comes this breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. 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. 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. What befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. It is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it.
 

Haunting journey through slavery's final days.

If you're drawn to stories with vivid historical settings and deep emotional undercurrents, "The Long Song" is a book that could resonate with you. Andrea Levy offers a window into the turbulent end of slavery in Jamaica, weaving a narrative that's as informative as it is moving. It's for anyone captivated by powerful storytelling that illuminates important, yet heartbreaking chapters of our past.

  • Booker Prize Nominee (2010)
  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010)
  • Walter Scott Prize (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.