When I Lived In Modern Times Linda Grant by Linda Grant 9781847082619, 1847082610, B006IOS59K instant download after payment.

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 humor, 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 Review

When I Lived In Modern Times 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" (Publishers Weekly).

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction