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The Long Song

Andrea Levy

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#715 of 8,085 books · #135 in Historical Fiction

Won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2011). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

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.

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Publisher
Hachette
ISBN-13
9780143173953
Topics
SlaveryColonial JamaicaFreedom and identity

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