num_pages: 272
description: Winner of the Orange Prize for FictionIn 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).
language: English
title: When I Lived in Modern Times
titlecomplete: When I Lived in Modern Times
genres: British Literature, Historical, Jewish, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Israel, Fiction
ratings_count: 1854
places: Palestine
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: RSL Encore Award
publisher: Plume