by Penelope Lively · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140156676
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«City of the Mind» is the literary fiction novel by Penelope Lively, published by Penguin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Matthew Halland, an architect, tries to rebuild his life after a divorce while working on the renovation of a Georgian terrace and in the Docklands area. Moving through London, the present intersects with the past: prehistory, the Blitz, his childhood and his daughter. A novel about the simultaneity of time and new beginnings.
City of the Mind was originally published by Andre Deutsch in 1991; this Penguin edition appeared on 30 April 1992.
Aimed at readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in present-day and historical London and in stories about memory and new beginnings.
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
