Moon tiger

208 pages

English language

Published Feb. 3, 1987 by Grove Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8021-1027-5
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.

But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.

Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire.

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Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Egypt -- Fiction
  • Terminally ill -- Fiction
  • Women historians -- Fiction
  • British -- Egypt -- Fiction
  • Egypt -- Fiction

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