Bitter lemons of Cyprus

Lawence Durrell

Winner of the Bulf Cooper Memorial Prize
He writes as an artist, as well as a poet; he remembers colour and landscape and the nuances of peasant conversation Eschewing politics, it says more about them than all our leading articles in describing a political tragedy it often has great poetic beauty! Kingsley Martin, New Statesman

Durrell possesses exceptional qualifications. He speaks Greek fuently he has a wide knowledge of modern Greek history, politics and literature; he has lived in continental Greece and has spent many years in other Greek islands… His account of this calamity is revelatory, moving and  restrained. It is written in the sensitive and muscular prose of which he is so consummate a
master Harold Nicolson, Observer