Moon Tiger

by Penelope Lively

Overview

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-sellign author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousnes, 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 who Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788412312393
Publisher:	L'Altra editorial
Publication date:	06/02/2021
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	777,270
File size:	972 KB
Language:	Catalan

About the Author

Penelope Lively (el Caire, 1933) és una de les autores més destacades de la literatura britànica del segle xx: ha escrit nombroses novel·les, moltes de premiades, i reculls de contes per a adults i joves. Va viure a Egipte fins als dotze anys, quan va aterrar a Anglaterra per estudiar. Ha estat finalista dues vegades del Booker Man Prize i finalment el va guanyar l'any 1987 amb la novel·la que teniu a les mans, Moon Tiger, que ha rebut també el premi Golden Man Booker a la millor obra de les deu premiades la dècada dels vuitanta. A més de novel·les i contes, Lively també ha escrit guions per a televisió i ràdio. És membre de la Royal Society of Literature i ha guanyat, entre altres condecoracions, la Medalla Carnegie i el Whitbread Award. Penelope Lively viu al nord de Londres.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

March 17, 1933

Place of Birth:

Cairo, Egypt

Education:

Honors Degree in Modern History, University of Oxford, England, 1955

Editorial Reviews

Lively recently won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. The heroine is Claudia Hampton, an unconventional historian and former war correspondent who lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer. Forced inward, Claudia moves randomly across time and place to reconstruct the strata of her life. But ``most lives have their core, their kernel, the vital centre''; Claudia's is the brief, tragic encounter she had in Egypt during the war with Tom Southern, a British tank officer on leave from battle. Tom's voice, along with those of her brother and daughter, joins Claudia's to shape a narrative that is a complex, intricately composed fugue. This haunting evocation of loss is Lively's finest achievement yet.Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.

Library Journal

"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."

New York Times Book Review

"A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past."

Boston Globe

Winner of the coveted Booker Prize, Moon Tiger is "a novel of exceptional intelligence and depth, by one of England's finest writers."

Publishers Weekly

"Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfaying. The all too brief encountere between Claudia and Tom will s urely rate as one of hte most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This is one of the best novels I have ready for years."

Telegraph The London Sunday

“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

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