When I Lived in Modern Times (Paperback)

from mirrani

This book won the Orange/Women's Prize for fiction and it is easy to see why. The writing completely drew me in to a world that I never would have visited before. There are stories out there about Israel and Palestine, but few have had the power to pull me to one side of the issue without making ...

from rainpebble

I won't attempt a review on this book as there are already several quite good ones on the book page. I will say that I really liked the book. Read it in one sitting. I loved the story; thought the writing could have been a bit better. Some of the characters I quite liked; others I wondered why th...

from 1morechapter

Winner of the Orange Prize, 2000 I didn't have any idea what this book was about when I started reading it. I sort of like it that way sometimes because it doesn't color my view of the book at all. I always love it when I read a novel in a historical context and learn something that I didn't know...

from brenzi

Is there any end to the history of which I am completely unaware? Linda Grant's evocative and fascinating coming of age story of both 20 year old Evelyn Sert as well as the state of Israel, had me furiously turning pages as I learned, at the feet of a masterful storyteller, about one year (1946) ...

from lauralkeet

I felt as if we were all half here and half somewhere else, deprived of our native languages, stumbling over an ugly ancient tongue. We knew that we were to be remade and reborn and we half did and half didjn't want to be. We were caught up in a plan to socially engineer our souls ... to emerge a...