The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010You 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. The Long Song is a narrative of July, a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity.