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Title	:	The Lonely Londoners
Author	:	Sam Selvon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 142 pages
Published	:	January 11th 1989 by Longman Publishing Group (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

The Lonely Londoners

Sam Selvon

Paperback | Pages: 142 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 5727 Users | 352 Reviews

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From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.

In the hopeful aftermath of war they flocked to the Mother Country — West Indians in search of a prosperous future in the "glitter-city."

Instead, they have to face the harsh realities of living hand to mouth, of racism, of bone-chilling weather and bleak prospects. Yet friendships flourish among these Lonely Londoners and, in time, they learn to survive.

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Original Title:	The Lonely Londoners
ISBN:	0582642647 (ISBN13: 9780582642645)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)

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Sam Selvon here writes a book without chapters and with a flow that keeps you wanting to know more as you turn the pages. Sam originally born and bred in Trinidad compiles a fictional account about his countrymen, who migrate to post World War II London in the 1950s in the hopes to find work and build a better life and eventually attaining the London dream life. To their arrival in Waterloo, London they are unexpectedly surprised to find a very unwelcoming atmosphere and a very detached feeling

I rate this book a 2.5. Why did I pick it up? I picked up this book due to recommendation from a podcast that I follow. I went into this book blindly. Yet, I am still disappointed. Its hard to put into words but I felt unfulfilled. However, the patois in the book created a sort of nostalgia for me.Describe the book in 5 words Nostalgic, Funny, Honest, and I am short two words. No judgmentsWho would LOVE The Lonely Londoners Anyone who wants to get a glimpse of Caribbean immigrants in foreign

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[4.5] An excellent mix of kitchen-sink realism and picaresque, with entertaining characters. The dialect narrative gives a wonderful sense of being right inside a subculture yet is lightly enough done that it's still a pretty fast read. (It's so relaxed that it doesn't seem like a trad third-person narrative, more often like listening to an old man telling stories of what his mates got up to back in the day.) There is l great detail about the London of the 1950s and the eternal magic of the

Its all in the title. I think Selvon is a very clever writer. He has created a vivid picture of London through the eyes of Caribbean immigrants in the 60s. These men were by themselves, for the most part, when entering the big city. They were met with prejudice and alienation. Its all rather moronic because not only did some of these men fight in the war for the allies, but they also filled a massive gap in the job market that the casualties left. Yet they are alienated. What a thankless people

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this novel. I'm not sure why I was surprised, seeing as I do have personal connection to the narrative. Both sets of my grandparents ended up moving from Jamaica to the UK in around the time period that this novel is set, and faced many of the problems and situations that the novel presents. Of course, it means I am not relating to this from a first hand perspective. But the events and everything discussed in the novel relate to how I am here now,

The Lonely Londoners is at once the most apt and the most deceiving of titles for Sam Selvon's collection of anecdotes describing 1950s London. The tales centre around the Windrush generation, where men, women and whole families made the long journey to Britain from the colonies. Selvon at once reinforces the loneliness that comes with being an outsider in the vast, cold and racially prejudiced London, yet he also injects a sense of bustling, local festivity, a place for hopes and dreams (both