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It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.

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It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.

• 作者：Norman 发布时间：2022-02-09 07:35:04

  3.5 not my type, but a fairly good novel about post colonialism and British Caribbean people. No one really survives from the colonial system, the world is not under your feet. Miss Queenie.

• 作者：Narranolan 发布时间：2018-12-26 11:33:54

  和zadie smith一样，给所有角色以讲故事能力的后果就是，动辄五六百页的当代baggy monster....

• 作者：F 发布时间：2020-07-26 02:13:36

  去年写关于它的论文的时候都没读完 现在才跑来看 惭愧

• 作者：夏日梧叶 发布时间：2019-11-22 19:33:40

  家人为不约而同都说种子不会发芽，也许，那个种子本来就不合适啊。当然这本书主要是讲自信、坚持的。但盲目自信和坚持岂不会南辕北辙？

• 作者：豆友13KGE9I8YU 发布时间：2024-05-06 11:44:31

  金庆学250

• 作者：小高同学 发布时间：2022-03-13 12:30:33

  靠扒微博就能写出一本人物传记加企业管理？unbelievable！

• 一层一层的苏醒过来——从《竹林中》的真相至其它

  作者：Annie 发布时间：2007-10-15 23:32:51

• 第一部分，Hortense

  作者：米亚 发布时间：2022-11-25 09:42:28