{"product_id":"bitter-lemons-of-cyprus-lawrence-durrell","title":"Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Lawrence Durrell)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e real-life family member of \u003ci\u003eThe Durrells in Corfu.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stunning.\u003c\/b\u003e' André Aciman \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' \u003c\/b\u003eJan Morris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.'\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Hislop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' \u003c\/b\u003eElif Shafak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Holmes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Exceptional ... Revelatory ... A master.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'He writes as an artist, as well as a poet . Profoundly beautiful.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts between Turkish and Greek Cypriots trouble the glittering Mediterranean waters. Into the brewing political storm enters Lawrence Durrell, yearning for the idyllic island lifestyle of his youth in Corfu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe settles into a dilapidated villa, and with his poet's eye for beauty - and passable Greek - vividly captures the moods and atmospheres of island life in a changing world. Whether collecting folklore or wild flowers, describing the brewing revolution or eccentric local characters, Durrell is a magician with words: and the result is not only a classic travel memoir, but an intimate portrait of a community lost forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant ... Never for a moment does Durrell lose the poet's touch.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLawrence Durrell \u003c\/b\u003ewas a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Family and Other Animals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e- later filmed as \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Durrells in Corfu\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003e and which he himself described in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProspero's Cell\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by \u003ci\u003eReflections on a Marine Venus \u003c\/i\u003eon Rhodes; \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBitter Lemons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Greek Islands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDurrell's first major novel, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Black Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin - and it was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Alexandria Quartet \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eJustine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003ewhich he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Avignon Quintet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65877714305373,"sku":"K094428363","price":12.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9442836300001A.jpg?v=1788982182","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/bitter-lemons-of-cyprus-lawrence-durrell","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}