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Levy Andrea

Книга "Small Island"

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  1. SMALL ISLAND ...
    1. ...
    2. SMALL ISLAND Andrea Levy HEAD...
    3. Praise for Small Island : ‘Small Island is an astonishing tour de force by Andrea Levy....
    4. Also by Andrea Levy Every Light in the House Burnin’ Never Far fr...
    5. Copyright © 2004 Andrea Levy The right of Andrea Levy to be identified as the Author of...
    6. For Bill ...
    7. Prologue Queenie I thought I’d been to Africa. Told all my class I had. Early Bir...
    8. 1948 ...
    9. One Hortense It brought it all back to me. Celia Langley. Celia Langley standing ...
    10. Two Gilbert ‘Is this the way the English live?’ How many times she ask me that qu...
    11. Before ...
    12. Three Hortense The sound of my father’s name could still hush a room long after h...
    13. Four Hortense I never knew that electric light could be used so extravagantly. At...
    14. Five Hortense The moment I saw him the pawpaw I carried slipped from my grasp, it...
    15. Six Hortense My dream was and always had been that I should find employment teach...
    16. Seven Hortense An intended marriage requires three weeks for the banns to be publ...
    17. Eight Hortense ‘Tell me, Mrs Joseph, how long you say your husband been in Englan...
    18. 1948 ...
    19. Nine Queenie For the teeth and glasses. That was the reason so many coloure...
    20. Ten Hortense At least the fool man, Gilbert, had had the decency to place himself...
    21. Before ...
    22. Eleven Gilbert My mirror spoke to me. It said: ‘Man, women gonna fall at your fee...
    23. Twelve Gilbert ‘Wakey, wakey, wakey – let go your cocks and grab your socks.’ The...
    24. Thirteen Gilbert ‘A little birdie tells me you can drive a car, Joseph,’ Sergeant...
    25. Fourteen Gilbert Driver-cum-coal-shifter was not an official trade in the RAF Tab...
    26. Fifteen Gilbert At first I thought, No, no, no, no, you are losing your mind, man...
    27. Sixteen Gilbert At the time I did not worry. Just white American soldiers – GIs o...
    28. Seventeen Gilbert How Clark Gable make every woman swoon so? Gone With the Wind. ...
    29. Eighteen Gilbert A group of boys jumped lively from the dock into the sea. Gangly...
    30. Nineteen Gilbert You see, most of the boys were looking upwards. Their feet might...
    31. 1948 ...
    32. Twenty Hortense He woke me rude, this man, shaking on my shoulder. ‘Come,’ he sai...
    33. Twenty-one Gilbert It was with trepidation that I had learned to pass by Queenie’...
    34. Twenty-two Hortense I hoped that Celia Langley could no longer see me. Where was ...
    35. Before ...
    36. Twenty-three Queenie I was christened Victoria Buxton. My mother had wanted me to...
    37. Twenty-four Queenie In Herefordshire, Hertfordshire and Hampshire hurricanes hard...
    38. Twenty-five Queenie Bernard would untie his pyjama bottoms, loosen the cord then ...
    39. Twenty-six Queenie That blinking grandfather clock went off every fifteen minutes...
    40. Twenty-seven Queenie Sometimes they were still smouldering like a burnt pie pulle...
    41. Twenty-eight Queenie It was my fault that Bernard volunteered for the RAF before ...
    42. Twenty-nine Queenie It wasn’t me. Mrs Queenie Bligh, she wasn’t even there. This ...
    43. 1948 ...
    44. Thirty Gilbert If the Almighty, perusing that list in the celestial book, was to ...
    45. Thirty-one Hortense ‘This is not chips,’ Gilbert Joseph say to me. ‘Your mummy ne...
    46. Thirty-two Gilbert Perhaps Elwood was right. ‘Stay in Jamaica,’ he had begged me....
    47. Thirty-three Hortense Mrs Bligh, or Queenie, the familiar name she desired I use,...
    48. Thirty-four Queenie I’d have recognised it anywhere, the back of Bernard’s neck. ...
    49. Before ...
    50. Thirty-five Bernard We were packed like cattle on to the train in Bombay when we ...
    51. Thirty-six Bernard I’d not wanted a war. None of us had. And I never wanted to be...
    52. Thirty-seven Bernard It was a relief for everyone to know loved ones back home we...
    53. Thirty-eight Bernard It was usually a treat to get a few days in Calcutta. Off to...
    54. Thirty-nine Bernard Thousands were killed in Calcutta. Men, women, children, even...
    55. Forty Bernard I had a stint of guard duty that night so I would’ve had to leave t...
    56. Forty-one Bernard Every inch of the basha raged with flame. The men silhouetted a...
    57. Forty-two Bernard ‘You’re in trouble, Bligh,’ the sergeant told me. I thought he ...
    58. Forty-three Bernard No doubt Maxi’s sons will cherish the letter from Flight Lieu...
    59. Forty-four Bernard He said it like I’d won the demob in a raffle. You wouldn’t ha...
    60. Forty-five Bernard Nothing to do on the sea journey back home. Hundreds of servic...
    61. 1948 ...
    62. Forty-six Bernard I expected Queenie to be shocked. Could hardly blame her. Husba...
    63. Forty-seven Queenie Of course I had to ask Bernard if he was staying. He needn’t ...
    64. Forty-eight Bernard Funny dream. Odd. I’m in bed with Queenie at home. She’...
    65. Forty-nine Gilbert ‘Winston,’ I say, ‘that you?’ ‘Oh, yes, yes – Winston. L...
    66. Fifty Hortense Gilbert Joseph looked wide-eyed on me to exclaim, ‘Wait, is that y...
    67. Fifty-one Gilbert It was in bewilderment that Hortense walked from the place. Clu...
    68. Fifty-two Bernard Felt like a thief. Silly, I know. A man can’t burgle his own ho...
    69. Fifty-three Hortense It was not enough to turn the key in the lock. Mrs Bligh com...
    70. Fifty-four Gilbert Now, come – let me think where to start. I must begin with Hor...
    71. Fifty-five Queenie There are some words that once spoken will split the world in ...
    72. Fifty-six Gilbert I come to dread a knock on the door. Is this the way a man supp...
    73. Fifty-seven Bernard Queenie kept him in a drawer. Odd way to start a life. The bo...
    74. Fifty-eight Queenie They were leaving. Gilbert had told Bernard. In a commotion, ...
    75. Fifty-nine Hortense I never dreamed England would be like this. Come, in what cra...
    76. Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following people, publications and organisat...