But in a world trembling on the brink of war, passion and death are inextricable. Trams, palm trees, and watermelon stalls lie honey-bathed in sunlight in darkened bedrooms, sweaty lovers unfurl. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: this seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me), is 'wonderful' (Elif Shafak)I remembered Justine saying harshly as she lay in bed: 'We use each other like axes to cut down the ones we really love'.Alexandria: the great winepress of love. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Andre Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, Find Me, and the essay collection Homo Irrealis. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet.
Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anais Nin - and it was praised by T. The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes Bitter Lemons, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and, later, The Greek Islands. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals - later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero's Cell.
Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.
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