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Bitter Lemons - Lawrence Durrell - An 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 would engulf Cyprus in the following decades, leading to the departure of Durrell and other foreign nationals. Some of those towns and even cities
remain ghost towns to this day. Once hard to find, this book has now been
deservedly reissued.
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