Fruit of the Lemon

Zusatztext Always refreshingly undogmatic... [readers] will recognise the truthfulness of the world which Andrea Levy describes Informationen zum Autor After she passed away on the 14th of February 2019, the Bookseller wrote: 'Andrea Levy will be remembered as a novelist who broke out of the confines assigned to her by prejudice to become a both a forerunner of Black British excellence and a great novelist by any standards.' Born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948, Andrea Levy wrote the novels that she had always wanted to read as a young woman, engaging books that reflect the experiences of black Britons and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean. She was described by BBC News as 'a writer who tackled important social issues . . . her writing . . . witty, humane and often moving, and full of richly drawn characters'. She was the author of six books, including SMALL ISLAND, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Whitbread book of the Year, and was adapted for TV and for the stage, by the National Theatre. It was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Her most recent novel, THE LONG SONG, won the Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was adapted for TV by the BBC. Klappentext Reissue. The third and most ambitious novel from this unique and acclaimed writer, FRUIT OF THE LEMON establishes Andrea Levy alongside Arundhati Roy and Meera Syal in the first rank of British fiction. Zusammenfassung An unique novel full of humour, wit and passion.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Levy
• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2000
• EAN: 9780747261148
• ISBN: 978-0-7472-6114-8
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Headline review; Headline review
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Jamaica, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Fiction: general and literary