Andrea Levy Bücher

Karibische Leichtigkeit, britischer Humor 1948 mieten sich Gilbert und Hortense, ein junges jamaikanisches Ehepaar, in East Court, dem Armenviertel Londons, ein. Das Haus gehört Queenie, einer attraktiven und mutigen Engländerin, und ihrem Mann Bernard, der traumatisiert aus dem Krieg zurückgekommen ist und sich mit rassistischen Sprüchen wichtig macht. Als Soldat der Royal Air Force hatte Gilbert noch Respekt und Anerkennung im fremden Land gefunden. Jetzt muß er feststellen, daß Glück sich relativ verhält zu den eigenen Erwartungen – eine Einsicht, mit der seine Ehefrau Hortense, eine Lehrerin, sich zunächst nicht zufriedengeben kann. Souverän verschränkt Andrea Levy vier Lebensgeschichten und erzählt in ihrem bewegenden Roman mit karibischer Leichtigkeit und britischem Humor von der Suche zweier Paare, das eine weiß, das andere schwarz, nach „einer englischen Art von Glück“.

Vom Kampf einer Frau um Freiheit Jamaika, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die betagte Miss July war einst Haussklavin auf einer Zuckerplantage und hat bewegte Zeiten hinter sich. Nun, viele Jahre nachdem sich ihre Brüder und Schwestern die Freiheit mit Blut erkauften, offenbart sie ihrem Sohn die Geschichte ihres Lebens – und erklärt ihm, warum sie gezwungen war, ihn als Säugling wegzugeben. Mit großer Lust am Fabulieren beginnt sie von jener Zeit zu erzählen, als sie die rechte Hand der Missus auf der Plantage war. Bis sich mit einem neuen Aufseher ihr Leben dramatisch änderte …

Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with the publication of her first novel, the semi-autobiographical EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE BURNIN'. 'None of my books is just about race,' Levy has said.'They're about people and history.' Her novels have triumphantly given voice to the people and stories that might have slipped through the cracks in history. From Jamaican slave society in the nineteenth century, through post-war immigration into Britain, to the children of migrants growing up in '60s London, her books are acclaimed for skilful storytelling and vivid characters. And her unique voice, unflinching but filled with humour, compassion and wisdom, has made her one of the most significant and exciting contemporary authors. This collection opens with an essay about how writing has helped Andrea Levy to explore and understand her heritage. She explains the context of each piece within the chronology of her career and finishes with a new story, written to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. As with her novels, these stories are at once moving and honest, deft and humane, filled with insight, anger at injustice and her trademark lightness of touch.

Angela's parents moved from Jamaica to England in 1948. Now, 20 years later, Mr Jacob is seriously ill, and moves unsteadily through the care of the NHS. As Angela tries to help her mother through the ordeal, she finds herself reliving her childhood years spent on a council estate in Highbury.

Andrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson.

Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize The New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year In her follow-up to Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, Andrea Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her "Marguerite." Together they live through the bloody Baptist War and the violent and chaotic end of slavery. An extraordinarily powerful story, "The Long Song leaves its reader with a newly burnished appreciation for life, love, and the pursuit of both" (The Boston Globe).

A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. They go to the same grammar school, but while Vivien's life becomes a chaotic mix of friendships, youth clubs, skinhead violence, A-levels, discos and college, Olive, three years older and a skin shade darker, has a very different tale to tell...

A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in US history: McCarthy's infamous 'witch hunt' for communists during the 1950's Red Scare.

A unique novel full of humour, wit and passion from Andrea Levy, critically acclaimed author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job in TV and the perfect flatshare. But neither is that perfect - and nor are her relations with her overbearing, though always loving family. Furious and perplexed when her parents announce their intention to retire back home to Jamaica, Faith makes her own journey there, where she is immediately welcomed by her Aunt Coral, keeper of a rich cargo of family history. Through the weave of her aunt's storytelling a cast of characters unfolds stretching back to Cuba and Panama, Harlem and Scotland, a story that passes through London and sweeps through continents.