Moon Tiger

Name: Moon Tiger
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Penelope Lively
ISBN: 9781684416677

Author: Penelope Lively

Narrator: Ruth Urquhart

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 09/19/2018

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

Penelope Lively won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her life, her own story tangled with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the center of her life, Tom, her one great love found and lost in war-torn Egypt. Always the independent woman, often with contentious relationships, Claudia's personal history is complex and fascinating. As people visit Claudia, they shake and twist the mosaic, changing speed, movement, and voice, to reveal themselves and Claudia's impact on their world.

About Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively is the author of numerous award-winning novels, including the Man Booker Prize–winning Moon Tiger and The Photograph. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of PEN, and a former chairman of the Society of Authors. She was awarded the CBE in 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

[U]nless I am a part of everything I am nothing. We are like waves in a vast ocean moving forward to break upon the shore and vanish, yet the ocean remains. Each wave has it’s own narrative, each person a starring role in the story of their own lives, yet all of us are a collective ocean of minor and......more

Goodreads review by Candi

“The voice of history, of course, is composite. Many voices; all the voices that have managed to get themselves heard. Some louder than others, naturally. My story is tangled with the stories of others – Mother, Gordon, Jasper, Lisa, and one other person above all; their voices must be heard also, t......more

Goodreads review by Ilse

Tiger tiger burning bright The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight. How can a novel in which the protagonist is lying in a hospital room awaiting death be so voraciously vivid? Lately watching Fortunes of war (with Emma Thompson and Kenn......more

Goodreads review by Katie

The narrator announces this is to be a history of the world. What she means, we soon learn, is that it will be a history of the world as experienced by her. We have all been exposed at certain times of our life to moments of history which mysteriously remain an essential part of who we are. Perhaps......more