Notes from a small island A weblog by Jonathan Ali |
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 "Most of all I would like to thank all those people in Britain who work hard to make sure the rivers in this country never run with blood, only with water." -- Andrea Levy riffs on Enoch Powell, in response to the announcement that her novel about Jamaican immigrants in Britian, Small Island, was awarded the Whitbread prize. (And Trinidad-born Trevor McDonald, the judges' chairman, in answering the inevitable question about Caribbean connections, said that he was not among those who pushed for Small Island to win.) posted by Jonathan | 9:36 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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