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Historical Fiction · ThoughtfulA historian in hospital reconstructs her life, from wartime Cairo to old age
Moon Tiger
1987Moderate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1987
A historian recalls her own life from a hospital bed
Claudia Hampton is a successful historian, now dying in hospital. She decides to write a history of the world and, as she does, her own memories take over, especially of Egypt in the war. It won the 1987 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Claudia Hampton and the people in her life.
World
A hospital bed in England, with memories of wartime Cairo.
What makes it different
Her memories are told out of order.
Feel
Reflective and moving.
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