Bitter Lemons (Paperback)

from starbox

A bit of a chore to get through- gritted teeth and did a chapter a day. Mr Durrell can write quite poetically, and I was left with a sense of wanting to go there. But I didn't particularly warm to him as a narrator. Firstly, we don't get too much sense of who he is as a person. Once he vaguely me...

from Greatrakes

I read this book whilst holidaying a few miles from Durrell's Cypriot home in the mountain village of Bellapias. It was written fifty years ago, and is a description of the troubles in Cyprus at the end of eighty years of British rule. The author's belief in the rightful continuance of Britain's ...

from ffortsa

Lawrence Durrell spent several years in Cyprus starting in 1953, and this book chronicles his first encounters with the culture, his time settling in, and then the gradually looming start of Cyprus's rebellion against British colonial rule (independence achieved in 1960). The first parts of the b...

from JBreedlove

This is why I read. An insightful look by a world classe English author about a time and a place that I had only vaguely considered. 1950's Cyprus and the fading of the British Empire. Great prose and insights.

from John_T_Stewart

I have to admit to being surprised reading this book. I know that Lawrence Durrell is a well-known English literature writer from the 1930s and so I expected to find this book hard to read. Instead I found it quite easy to read. It is an interesting version of the history of Cyprus at the start o...