{"product_id":"when-i-lived-in-modern-timesbooks","title":"When I Lived in Modern Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Orange Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange country, she joins a kibbutz, then moves on to the teeming metropolis of Tel Aviv, to find her own home and a group of friends as eccentric and disparate as the city itself. She falls in love with a man who is not what he seems when she becomes an unwitting spy for a nation fighting to be born. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I Lived in Modern Times\u003c\/i\u003e is \"an unsentimental coming-of-age story of both a country and a young immigrant . . . that provides an unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).","brand":"Grant, Linda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47258878935264,"sku":"","price":13.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ed21c80e-c36e-4ce1-9240-a379d005a7ef.jpg?v=1744745273","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/when-i-lived-in-modern-timesbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}