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Name: Bitter Lemons
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Year: 1957
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Popularity: 1.7
Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Award winners, Memoirs, History
Culture: Greece

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ISBN:
9780140153187
9780848804800
9781850891178
0140153187
0848804805
1850891176
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1957.

In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.

Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, it is a document at once personal, poetic and subtly political - a masterly combination of travelogue, memoir and treatise.
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