Women's Prize for Fiction うぃめんず・ぷらいず・ふぉー・ふぃくしょん
Edition 5 (2000)
NovelFor female authorsEnglish-language worksWorks published in the UK
Winners
1 peopleSet in 1946, the novel follows Evelyn Sert, a young Soho hairdresser who sails to Palestine and is drawn into the idealism, politics, and danger surrounding the birth of a new state.
A young hairdresser sails for Palestine and is swept into the dangerous idealism of Tel Aviv.
272 pages
postwar PalestineTel Avivdisplacement and exilestate formationidentitycoming of agelove and politics