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title: "Bitter Lemons Paperback – January 5, 2009"
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# Bitter Lemons Paperback – January 5, 2009

**Brand:** lawrence durrell
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- **What is this?** Bitter Lemons Paperback – January 5, 2009 by lawrence durrell
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## Customer Reviews

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    Amazing writing!
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2022*

This book is written in such dense English prose that I found it difficult to read and remember what I had just read at the same time!  Durrells descriptions of the island landscape, its people, and the rhythms of life are poetic and rich.  I was sad to leave Cyprus with him.

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    Gifted writer, but a bit tedious
  

*by K***. on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2022*

I came across this writer while reading books by Robert KaplanIt is an interesting time capsule of Cyprus, but also an indictment of Britain and their meddling around the world as they tried to grasp their crumbling empire

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    Cyprus Beauty, Calm and Revolution
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2013*

Yes, Durrell's writing as this book begins is overblown, flowery, as some others have said.  It starts off as a paean to village life in Cyprus. ( Durrell is caught up in the life of the "noble savage", the Cypriot villagers who live much as they did eons ago. He even buys ,and settles into, a home in an obscure village.)  But, then this memoir morphs into a sad look at the push for Cypriot self-determination in the 1950s.The author changes from an optimistic lover of all things Cyprus to a man who is just not sure where his allegiances lie between the English, Greeks and Turks.  To give Durrell credit, he is  open-minded on the issues---wants to avoid the problems or postpone them. But, this is not to be.  Conflict comes. War comes.  He's been hired by the British government.  He ultimately is a colonial power.Durrell's voice is gentle and seems to be of the past--which it is. As a side note, he gives an interesting take on how ordinary villagers become partisans--revolutionaries. This is still applicable today, I think.

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