Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk
Winner of the Booker Prize, Penelope Lively''s Moon Tiger is the tale of a historian confronting her own, personal history, unearthing the passions and pains that have defined her life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Anthony Thwaite.Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: ''a history of the world ... and in the process, my own''. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. Penelope Lively''s Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of loss and desire.Penelope Lively (b. 1933) was born in Cairo. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield , and again in 1984 for According to Mark . She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger . Her novels include Passing On , City of the Mind , Cleopatra''s Sister and Heat Wave , and many are published by Penguin.If you enjoyed Moon Tiger , you might like L.P. Hartley''s The Go-Between, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''It''s a fine, intelligent piece of work, the kind that Leaves its traces in the air long after you''ve put it away''Anne Tyler''Funny, thoughtful ... a perfect example of the Lively art'' Mark Lawson, Independent