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When I Lived in Modern Times

Linda Grant

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#783 of 8,085 books · #151 in Historical Fiction

Won the Women's Prize for Fiction (2000).

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 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.

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Publisher
Clipper Large Print
ISBN-13
9781407485843
Topics
Identity and reinventionJewish immigration to PalestineLove amid political conflict

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