Moon Tiger - Softcover

Lively, Penelope

3.91

16,639 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140099956 ISBN 13: 9780140099959

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

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Claudia Hampton is dying. As memories crowd in, she re-creates the mosiac of her life, her own story enmeshed with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the centre of her life, Tom, her one great love both found and lost in the "mad fairyland" of war-torn Egypt.

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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"
"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"
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""
"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

About the Author:

Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. 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 other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.

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