- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (4 Aug 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140099956
- ISBN-13: 978-0140099959
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Claudia Hampton is dying. As memories crowd in, she re-creates the mosiac of her life, her own story enmeshed with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the centre of her life, Tom, her one great love both found and lost in the "mad fairyland" of war-torn Egypt.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book because it was a Booker Prize winner. I love this book because it's deep beyond words. I found it incredibly moving. The lyrical way Ms. Lively blends the past with the present is amazing. In the end you feel you've lived life right along side the main character, Claudia. She has become at once a relative you never knew you had. Her thoughts and fears take hold of you and despite your feelings about her choices in life, you care about her and are moved. The detailed historical references and incredible imagery are not to be missed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book for A-Level and the memory has stayed with me forever. I hope when I am 76 I will be like Claudia but without the regrets. An incredibly powerful journey interweaved with so many different lives. I love this book and have yet to find another book with such a clever storyline. Penelope Lively is amazing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Moon Tiger has been one of my favourite books for twenty years. The quality of the writing and the universal themes of the book (life, death, love and the fact that no two persons see or experience the same events in the same way) has more than stood the test of time. In Claudia Hampton, Penelope Lively has created a heronine as interesting and moving as she is egotistical and irritating. As a historian Claudia realises that history is not linear, and as she reflects on her own life we see it through her eyes and through the eyes of those close to her - brother Gordon, lovers Tom and Jasper, daughter Lisa, and so on. But is their remembrance and history the same as Claudias? Even when it is shared history? It is not. The essential solitariness of the human condition comes strongly to the fore in this account of a many faceted life. Are we ever truly known? Even by those closest to us? And do we have a core that all else revolves around, unbeknowst to the outside world? Perhaps, read, see and experience your own story.
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Not enjoyable
I really thought I'd enjoy this book but was bitterly disappointed. Claudia and the rest of the characters inspire no sympathy - their bourgeois lifestyles seem oh-so predictable... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Stevie
Bit of a dry read
This is the first Penelope Lively book I have read so I didn't know what to expect. It was very slow and didn't do very much for me. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Maidstone reader
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
MOON TIGER
Penelope Lively
Booker Prize 1987
This is the `history' of Claudia - written as she is dying of cancer. Read more
Penelope Lively
Booker Prize 1987
This is the `history' of Claudia - written as she is dying of cancer. Read more
Published 14 months ago by RJ
Didn't live up to its promise...
I expected to be intrigued, engaged and transported to an exotic land (geographically and temporally) by Penelope; most reviews I'd read and heard were enthusiastic. Read more
Published 18 months ago by chemistrykaren
Powerful, Moving and Beautifully Wrought
"I'm writing a history of the world. The whole triumphant murderous unstoppable chute-from the mud to the stars, universal and particular, your story and mine", so says Claudia... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2004 by prisrob
Where the Future Begins
A history of the world. What's said and what's left out. The things and people that construct the world of an individual. Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2002 by Eric Anderson
Who knows what a moon tiger is anyway?
I recently re read this book after being forced to study it for A-Level and hating it. An ex girlfriend had also read it and really enjoyed it so I decided to read it again and am... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2002 by Dave Bishop
A deeply layered and emotional novel.
This was the first Lively novel I had ever read, and I have not yet found one to rival it. In Claudia, Lively has created the paradox of a character you can both love and hate at... Read more
Published on 30 May 2001 by Scarlett
Death makes every individual reflect on their life.
Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger confronts and helps resolve everyone's fear of death. The flashbacks of Claudia Hampton reveal not only lessons on life but also provides an... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2000
Moon Tiger as my A-level set text
The fact that we have to study this novel as part of our A-level course highlights the fact that Lively has come up with a cracker. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 1998
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