Come, let them just read it for themselves. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. Andrea Levys novel, 'The Long Song,' is a powerful and poignant story of slavery, freedom, and the struggle for independence in colonial Jamaica. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. My son says I must convey how the story tells also 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.
She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. A series based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica.
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. My son Thomas, who is publishing 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 these pages. You can read this before The Long Song PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Julys tale, The Long Song, opens with her mother Kittys rape by Amity plantations overseer, Tam Dewar. Levy has described her first three novels as her baton race (Younge). Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Long Song written by Andrea Levy which was published in. The Long Song, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010, tells the story of. Brief Summary of Book: The Long Song by Andrea Levy
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