
Publisher details
- Author
- Linda Grant
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Genres
- Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner, Fiction
- Released
- 01 January, 2000
When I Lived in Modern Times
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Synopsis
It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand-new country.In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, anything seems possible - the new self, new Jew, new woman are all feasible. Evelyn, adept at disguises, reinvents herself as the bleached-blonde Priscilla Jones. Immersed in a world of passionate idealism, she finds love, and with Johnny, her lover, finds herself at the heart of a very dangerous game.Winner of the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction.

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