When I Lived in Modern Times

Linda Grant · 2000 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

A young East End hairdresser arrives in Tel Aviv in 1946, in the last years of the British Mandate, and sets about reinventing herself in the new Bauhaus city. Her private remaking runs against the violence that is turning Palestine into Israel; an Orange Prize winner on Jewish self-invention.

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