num_pages: 208
description: The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.
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: 16106
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: Grove Press