num_pages: 208
description: Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: 'a history of the world ... and in the process, my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic of her life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. Penelope Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of loss and desire.
language: English
title: Moon Tiger
titlecomplete: Moon Tiger
characters: Claudia Hampton
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, World War II, Novels, War, Egypt, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 16112
places: Egypt, North Africa
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Golden Man Booker Prize
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd