Oleander, Jacaranda
by Penelope Lively
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A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.
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Oleander, jacaranda: a childhood perceived
1995, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd
in English
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Oleander, Jacaranda
August 1, 1995, Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
Hardcover
- Large Print Ed edition
0708933483 9780708933480
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Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
May 10, 1995, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
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Oleander, Jacaranda: a childhood perceived : a memoir
1994, HarperCollins
in English
- 1st ed.
0060171065 9780060171063
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Oleander, Jacaranda: a childhood perceived
1994, Viking
in English
- 1st ed.
0670854700 9780670854707
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