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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus | 
 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 349803
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1
ISBN: 0571201555
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780571201556
ASIN: 0571201555
Publication Date: March 2001
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Product Description
One of a three-part series of Lawrence Durrell's writings. In this volume he explores the island of Cyprus, evoking the sun-drenched landscapes, dazzling light and vivid blue skies of the Aegean.
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utter loveliness. December 15, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I wouldn't want to spoil the thing by saying too much, but it was a very interesting read, aside from being intensely pleasant. There's a certain delicacy, about death, and strife, and the drinking of wine. Durrell is well spoken and well informed: you might think, like I did, that the story of Cyprus isn't politically relevant. But I only thought that because I'm an ignorant American, and because I had yet to read this lovely book.
Memories of times lost January 17, 2004
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
An evocative memoir of the author's stay [1953-6] in what's now Northern Cyprus. Much of the landscape was still as he described it when we visited Belle Pais, Famagusta, Kyrenia, and Nicosia, the Tree of Idleness and other sites on our hiking trip to Cyprus in 2001. His adventures in buying and maintaining a house rival those of Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence"written many years later. The peaceful interludes in the hills are marred by foreshadowing of the political turmoil and tragedies that would engulf Cyprus in the following decades, leading to the departure of Durrell and other foreign nationals. Some of those towns and even cities remain ghost towns to this day. Once hard to find, this book has now been deservedly reissued.
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