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Oleander, Jacaranda

Autor Penelope Lively
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 2006
An autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Egypt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141188324
ISBN-10: 0141188324
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 194 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Lively uses the imaginative power of a mature novelist to evoke the sounds, sights and smells of Cairo which is not so much 'another country as another century'

Notă biografică


Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.