When I Lived in Modern Times

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2000

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Publisher's Synopsis

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781847082619
Publisher: Granta Publications
Imprint: Granta Books
Pub date:
Edition: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2000
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 196g
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 17mm