num_pages: 260
description: It is April 1946. For a weary and exhausted Europe, it's a time to begin picking up the pieces of the past, and for the armies of displaced persons on the move to slowly return home -- if they still have one. But for Evelyn Sert, a twenty-year-old woman from London standing on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine, it is a time of adventure and a time of change when anything seems possible.Landing on the shores of a nation fighting to be born, Evelyn is quickly caught up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange country. Unsure of herself and where she belongs in this world whose only constant is change, she will become Eve and work in the unbearable heat of a kibbutz. As Evelyn, she will find a home, and a collection of friends as eccentric and disparate as the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv itself. And as Priscilla, she will find love with a man who is not what he seems to be, as she is swept up as an unwitting spy in an underground army that is beyond anything she's ever imagined.A coming-of-age story unlike any other, When I Lived in Modern Times illuminates a page of twentieth century history that is at once exotic and familiar through the eyes of one of the most unforgettable heroines in contemporary fiction.
language: English
title: When I Lived in Modern Times
titlecomplete: When I Lived in Modern Times
genres: Fiction, Historical, Israel, British Literature, Jewish, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary 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: Dutton Adult