Author: Lawrence Durrell Year: 1957 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Award winners, Memoirs, History Culture: Greece
Purchase/reserch links:
ISBNs: 9781604190045 1604190043 |
|
In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, it is a document at once personal, poetic and subtly political - a masterly combination of travelogue, memoir and treatise.
Similar books:
|