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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780571201556 ISBN: 0571201555 Label: Faber & Faber Ltd Manufacturer: Faber & Faber Ltd Number Of Pages: 276 Publication Date: 2001-03 Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd Studio: Faber & Faber Ltd Related Items:
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 Rating: - utter loveliness.I wouldn't want to spoil the thing by saying too much, but it was a very interesting read, aside from being intensely pleasant. There's a certain delicacy, about death, and strife, and the drinking of wine. Durrell is well spoken and well informed: you might think, like I did, that the story of Cyprus isn't politically relevant. But I only thought that because I'm an ignorant American, and because I had yet to read this lovely book. Rating: - Memories of times lostAn evocative memoir of the author's stay [1953-6] in what's now Northern Cyprus. Much of the landscape was still as he described it when we visited Belle Pais, Famagusta, Kyrenia, and Nicosia, the Tree of Idleness and other sites on our hiking trip to Cyprus in 2001. His adventures in buying and maintaining a house rival those of Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence"written many years later. The peaceful interludes in the hills are marred by foreshadowing of the political turmoil and tragedies that ... Read More 
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