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Book · 1957 · Nonfiction

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Lawrence Durrell
Faber & Faber, Limited · 288 pages
★ 4.8 editorial score

Buying a house in the hill village of Bellapais, Durrell watched Cyprus slide from Mediterranean idyll into insurgency, and ended up speaking for the British government as his Greek friends turned against him.

Genre
Travel literatureAutobiography and memoir
Medium
Memoir
Subject
ColonialismIndependenceMemoryDecline
Setting
Cyprus
Time
1957Depicts 1950s

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