{"product_id":"9781101563397","title":"When I Lived in Modern Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Orange Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\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. \u003cb\u003eWhen I Lived in Modern Times\u003c\/b\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\" (\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e, starred review).","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106499641584,"sku":"9781101563397","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101563397_p0.jpg?v=1763688442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101563397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}