- Paperback: 255 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (31 Dec 1951)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571061869
- ISBN-13: 978-0571061860
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #8 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Europe > Cyprus
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This book is a true story leading up to the EOKA Terrorists when the Greeks, 300 miles down the Med, wanted to take over Cyprus, which they had no claim over any-way. I served there in the Parachute Regiment in the 50's, trying to stop the terrorists from annihialating the Turkish Cypriots.That is why Cyprus is now divided!!!!
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Cyprus, the third of Durrell's island quartet,
By E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bitter Lemons (Mass Market Paperback)
"Bitter Lemons" (1957) is the third of four 'landscape books' that Durrell wrote about his pre- and post-war experiences in and around the Mediterranean. The other books in this series are "Prospero's Cell," "Reflections on a Marine Venus," and "Sicilian Carousel."
The first book, "Prospero's Cell" was written in the years preceding World War II. Durrell's foreshadowing of that grim future cast his landscapes and dazzling Greek villages of Corfu into intense relief. In his second book, war still clings like a gray film to the bright fabric of "Reflections of a Marine Venus," which was begun in 1945. In his third island book, the author moves away from World War II, and into his experiences dodging gunmen and bombs during the postwar 'unrest' on Cyprus, which was then a British protectorate. Even though it seemed from Durrell's first two books that he would be a strong supporter of Enosis--the union of Cyprus with Greece--he comes across as a pompous British colonialist in "Bitter Lemons." Poona stuff all around that reads rather obnoxiously in the Twenty-first century. Some of his Greek friends stopped speaking to him, but Durrell's patriotic rhetoric can be partially excused by his position--he was the British Director of Information for Cyprus. According to the introduction by Ian S. MacNiven, Durrell might even have been in the pay of MI-5 (British Military Intelligence). This is still a very moving book about essentially peaceful Cypriots, both Greek and Turk getting caught up in a bloody conflict no one really wanted. There are many parallels to current-day Lebanon, especially if you look beyond the scope of "Bitter Lemons" to the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey. Durrell's second great obsession during his years on Cyprus was the purchase and restoration of an old Turkish house at Bellapaix. This is the best part of the book in spite of the stereotypical 'boisterous' Greeks and 'indolent' Turks. The author employs his best, most beautiful descriptions on his house, his village, and the surrounding territory. This is the author I came to love in the first two books of this series. "Bitter Lemons" is thought by some to be the best of Durrell's island books. I would rate it the least, but still worth reading. Recommendation: try to find the Marlowe & Company editions of Durrell's island quartet for their knowledgeable and interesting introductions. |
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