Oleander, Jacaranda : A Childhood Percei

Author: Lively, Penelope

Brand: Penguin

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 208

Release Date: 27-04-2006

Part Number: 9780141188324

Details: Product Description
This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Eygpt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view, which is also, ultimately, a moving and rather sad picture of an isolated and lonely little girl.
Review
So vividly evocative that you can smell the dust and dung, jacaranda and the oleander. It offers potent glimpses of British colonial life 50 years ago: the snake-charmer in the garden; the nine-year old Penelope spying on de Gaulle at Government House... The result is a wise, colourful and touching tale ―
The Times


Lively uses the imaginative power of a mature novelist to evoke the sounds, sights and smells of Cairo which is not so much 'another country as another century' ―
Independent
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. 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.

EAN: 9780141188324

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English