Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
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゚モレ Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
Author: Penelope Lively
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Penguin
Format: Mass Market Paperback (178mm x 110mm)
ISBN: 9780140235876
Condition: Good - minimal wear
゚ヤヘ Synopsis
Penelope Lively evokes her unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals, and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. So vividly evocative that you can smell the dust and dung, jacaranda and oleander, it offers potent glimpses of British colonial life 50 years ago: the snake-charmer in the garden; the nine-year-old Penelope spying on de Gaulle at Government House.
゚メᆲ Reviews
¬タワA poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively.¬タン (Goodreads, 3.96/5)
¬タワFilled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child.¬タン (Amazon, 4.0/5)
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Condition: Good