Moon Tiger: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
Autor Penelope Livelyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1997
Vezi toate premiile Carte premiată
Man Booker Prize (1987)
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780802135339
ISBN-10: 0802135331
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic
Locul publicării:New York, NY
ISBN-10: 0802135331
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic
Locul publicării:New York, NY
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Recenzii
“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.” —Boston Globe
“Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This is one of the best novels I have read for years.” —The London Sunday Telegraph
“It pulls us in; it engages us and saddens us. It is also unexpectedly funny . . . It leaves its traces in the air long after you’ve put it away.” —The New York Times Book Review
Descriere
The last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel by Booker Prize-winner Penelope Lively. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfufilled love.
Notă biografică
Penelope
Lively
is
the
author
of
many
prize-winning
novels
and
short-story
collections
for
both
adults
and
children.
She
has
twice
been
shortlisted
for
the
Booker
Prize:
once
in
1977
for
her
first
novel,The
Road
to
Lichfield,
and
again
in
1984
forAccording
to
Mark.
She
later
won
the
1987
Booker
Prize
for
her
highly
acclaimed
novelMoon
Tiger.
Her
other
books
includeGoing
Back;Judgement
Day;Next
to
Nature,
Art;Perfect
Happiness;Passing
On;City
of
the
Mind;Cleopatra's
Sister;Heat
Wave;Beyond
the
Blue
Mountains,
a
collection
of
short
stories;Oleander,
Jacaranda,
a
memoir
of
her
childhood
days
in
Egypt;Spiderweb;
her
autobiographical
work,A
House
Unlocked;The
Photograph;Making
It
Up;Consequences;Family
Album,
which
was
shortlisted
for
the
2009
Costa
Novel
Award,
andHow
It
All
Began.
She
is
a
popular
writer
for
children
and
has
won
both
the
Carnegie
Medal
and
the
Whitbread
Award.
She
was
appointed
CBE
in
the
2001
New
Year's
Honours
List,
and
DBE
in
2012.
Penelope
Lively
lives
in
London.
Premii
- Man Booker Prize Winner, 1987