by Penelope Lively · EDITORIAL CONTRASEÑA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494090332
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At seventy-six, Claudia Hampton, a heterodox historian and author of several successful books, finds herself in a London hospital at the end of her life. Amidst the confusion of her consciousness, certain memories of her life resurface as she imagines she is writing a history of the world. However, 'Moon Tiger', Penelope Lively's 1987 Booker Prize-winning novel, is actually the story of Claudia, a strong and independent woman whose relationships with family and friends have often been difficult. As the novel progresses, the complex mosaic of her life and her time is recreated, remembering the most important people: Gordon, her brother and best friend; Jasper, a charming but unreliable lover and father of Lisa, Claudia's only daughter, a cold and conventional woman; and Tom, an artillery chief whom Claudia meets during World War II in Egypt, where she works as a press correspondent, and who becomes the great love of her life, the immovable axis of a constantly changing world.
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.
