by Lawrence Durrell · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571056798
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«Justine» is the first novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (253 pages, in English).
In the Egyptian Alexandria of the 1930s and 1940s, a teacher and writer recalls from a Greek island his relationship with Justine, a Jewish woman married to the wealthy Copt Nessim. The city becomes another character and the plot interweaves love, jealousy, memory, and the deceptive nature of reality.
First installment of the Alexandria Quartet, completed by Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. It received the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1959.
Audience for literary fiction and modern narrative, with an interest in interwar Egypt.
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
