In the canon
The Lonely Londoners
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1956
- Pages
- Pages 150
West Indian immigrants scrape by in the cold and racism of 1950s London, gathering around a weary elder who has watched each new arrival's hope curdle into homesickness, before the voice breaks into one unpunctuated hymn to the city.
Nobody in London does really accept you. They tolerate you, yes, but you can't go in their house and eat or sit down and talk.
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