“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
Penelope Lively book Moon Tiger
Source: Moon Tiger
Quotes from bookMoon Tiger
Moon Tiger is a 1987 novel by Penelope Lively which spans the time before, during and after World War II. The novel won the 1987 Booker Prize. It is written from multiple points of view and moves backward and forward through time. It begins as the story of a woman who, on her deathbed, decides to write a history of the world, and develops into a story of love, incest and the desire to be recognized as an independent free thinking woman of the time.
