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Jul 03, 2000 bitter lemons of cyprus is lawrence durrell s unique account of his time in cyprus, during the 1950s enosis movement for freedom of the island from british colonial rule. Lawrence durrell author born in jalandhar, british india, in 1912 to indianborn british colonials, lawrence durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for the alexandria quartet novels, which were ranked by the mod. Bitter lemons of cyprus is not a political book but simply a somewhat impressionistic study of the moods and atmospheres of. For some reason a lot of reprints are now entitled bitter lemons of cyprus why.
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