Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived : A Memoir - Hardcover

Lively, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060171065 ISBN 13: 9780060171063

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1994

Synopsis

The author recalls growing up English in Egypt in the thirties and forties and examines the influence Egyptian culture had on her as a child of a colonial society

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and plants of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0060171065
• ISBN 13: 9780060171063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 133