Oleander, Jacaranda

By Penelope Lively

Subjects: English Novelists, Egypte, History, British, foreign countries, Egypt, biography, Lively, Penelope, 1933- -- Childhood and youth., Egypt, social life and customs, British, Women authors, Authors, biography, Biography, Children, egypt, Childhood and youth, Children, biography, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Novelists, English, Authors, english, Large type books, New York Times reviewed

Description: A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's 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. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.