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alexis_objetautre 's review for:
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
An absolutely engaging and compelling short novel.
Moon Tiger manages to be so many things at once: soft/gentle/wistful (in the sense of memory, reminiscence) - witty/wry/sharp (of a clever and strong-willed woman) - complicated/experimental (shifting tenses, echoing repetitions from different perspectives) - and wide in scope (from England to Egypt, and afar into history, and deep into personal narrative).
I read this after Hawksmoor and found many similarities, in the ways both books explore the voice of history and the public and private natures of "the collective past". However (to vastly oversimplify, while saying something that feels very true) Hawksmoor is a story of male energy in a man's world and Moon Tiger is the story of a woman, of that same world, being utterly herself.
Moon Tiger manages to be so many things at once: soft/gentle/wistful (in the sense of memory, reminiscence) - witty/wry/sharp (of a clever and strong-willed woman) - complicated/experimental (shifting tenses, echoing repetitions from different perspectives) - and wide in scope (from England to Egypt, and afar into history, and deep into personal narrative).
I read this after Hawksmoor and found many similarities, in the ways both books explore the voice of history and the public and private natures of "the collective past". However (to vastly oversimplify, while saying something that feels very true) Hawksmoor is a story of male energy in a man's world and Moon Tiger is the story of a woman, of that same world, being utterly herself.