The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking
and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica, for
those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12
Years a Slave. 'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial TimesYou
do not know me yet.
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. 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 named
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 present when
slavery was declared no more. 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. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages
for you to peruse.
Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write
that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of
people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can
decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my
son, what fuss-fuss.
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
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