When I Lived in Modern Times

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.

Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange country, she joins a kibbutz, then moves on to the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv, to find her own home and a group of friends as eccentric and disparate as the city itself. She falls in love with a man who is not what he seems when she becomes an unwitting spy for a nation fighting to be born. When I Lived in Modern Times is "an unsentimental coming-of-age story of both a country and a young immigrant . . . that provides an unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 12/31/2002
ISBN: 9780452282926
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.63d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 12/07/2001 pg. 96
Kliatt 01/01/2002 pg. 10
Booklist 05/15/2002 pg. 1586