Justine
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 11/6/2016
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Synopsis (credit: Wikipedia)
Justine, published in 1957, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's literary tetralogy, The Alexandria Quartet. Justine is one of four interlocking novels, each of which tells various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from differing points of view.
The quartet is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the city itself as described by Durrell becoming as much of a complex character as the human protagonists of the novels.
On the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List.
(Bought second-hand at Help the Rural Child Charity Bookshop, Main Road, Sea Point.)
The author has some skill in capturing the not quite "White Mischief" type postcolonial lifestyle of the pre-WWII era. I for one will not be looking out for the remaining three books making up the quartet.
"She gazed about her like a half-trained panther."
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (1/10/2023 UTC) at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
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