{"product_id":"when-i-lived-in-modern-times-9780452282926","title":"When I Lived in Modern Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Orange Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange country, she joins a kibbutz, then moves on to the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv, to find her own home and a group of friends as eccentric and disparate as the city itself. She falls in love with a man who is not what he seems when she becomes an unwitting spy for a nation fighting to be born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I Lived in Modern Times\u003c\/i\u003e is \"an unsentimental coming-of-age story of both a country and a young immigrant . . . that provides an unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinda Grant\u003c\/b\u003e is one of England's leading journalists and writers. The author of three previous books, including \u003cb\u003eThe Cast Iron Shore\u003c\/b\u003e (winner of the David Higham Prize for best first novel of 1995) and \u003cb\u003eRemind Me Who I Am, Again\u003c\/b\u003e, her acclaimed account of her mother's dementia. \u003cb\u003eWhen I Lived in Modern Times\u003c\/b\u003e won the Orange Prize - established in 1996 to honor novels of excellence, originality and accessibility by women writers - in June 2000, and will be her first work of fiction published in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Plume Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491744420114,"sku":"9780452282926","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1c66a60b-49b7-428a-965b-cb3204c50ab4.jpg?v=1730553582","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-i-lived-in-modern-times-9780452282926","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}