![]() ![]() The driving part of the story is about slavery on the sugar plantations and what happens when the faraway colonial masters in Britain proclaim an end to that slavery. ![]() The Long Song seems likely to be on some 2010 prize lists (it is already on the Orange Prize longlist) so I figured I would start here and then decide whether to work backwards.Īnd those concerns? The novel is set in Jamaica in the first half of the nineteenth century. I have not read it nor seen the mini-series but intend to - she seems to explore some of the same turf that Sam Selvon’s Moses trilogy ( reviewed here ) did in an earlier generation. Why was I reading it in the first place? Levy’s last novel, Small Island, won a slew of prizes (Orange, Whitbread, Commonwealth Writers’) and was adapted in a popular BBC series that aired in December. I approached it with a list of concerns that I was pretty certain would lead me to find it wanting and concerns like that generally get confirmed I concluded it feeling that Levy not only had disposed of them, she had produced a highly readable and informative book. Purchased from the Book DepositoryAndrea Levy’s The Long Song is a rare book for me. ![]()
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