When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
This is my story. Scratch a Jew and you've got a story. If you don't like elaborate picaresques full of unlikely events and tortuous explanations, steer clear of the Jews. If you want things to be straight forward, find someone else to listen to. You might even get to say something yourself. How do we begin a sentence? 'Listen . . .' Evelyn Sert is standing on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. It's April 1946. Her journey takes her to the Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, where the refugees from Nazi Germany are determined to forge a modern consciousness in the heart of the Middle East. As British colonial history draws to a bloody close and the new post-war Jew struggles to be born, everyone's story is about coming home. National identity, terrorism, love and the art of hairdressing are at the heart of When I Lived in Modern Times. This compulsively readable novel recreates a lost time, when the future was more important than the past and anything seemed possible.
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool and read English at the University of York. She is a columnist and feature writer on the Guardian and is the author of The Cast Iron Shore and Remind Me Who I Am Again, both available as Granta paperbacks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862074101 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862074100 |
| Title | When I Lived in Modern Times |
| Author | Linda Grant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2000-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction 2000, Winner of Orange Prize 2000, Short-listed for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010, Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction 2000 |
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