208 páginas
Idioma English
Publicado el 3 de Febrero de 1987 por Grove Press.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.
But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.
Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire.
This book was recommended to me because I reminded several friends of one of the characters, and of course that made me curious. I bought it and it's been languishing on a shelf for too many years. It's next on my list.
*****
This has been a complete disappointment, mostly because the pace is too slow and the characters, language and events are not engaging enough to compensate for that. A shame.
