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When I Lived In Modern Times by Linda Grant is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is When I Lived In Modern Times about?
In 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 changes when all things seem possible."Full of sharp humour, complex ironies and an acute eye for cultural clashes, this is a superb coming-of-age novel." - Independent on Sunday (UK)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. "With this, her fourth book, Linda Grant becomes a serious player, cutting and styling her material with journalistic flair and immediacy but none of journalism’s quick fixes... This is a meaty, witty novel, built up of talk and argument as much as action, about identity, alienation, and how to accommodate the past while creating a future. A strength of the novel is that although it is wholly about being Jewish, the concerns can be read as universal." - Victoria Glendinning, Literary ReviewWhen I
Who reads When I Lived In Modern Times?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Linda Grant
- Publisher
- Granta Books (UK)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781862073340
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (1,011 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14