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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- After a group of English travellers mysteriously vanish in the labyrinth of the Minotaur – a mythical maze on Greece’s Crete – the stories leading to their disappearances are recounted and resolved.
This is not a thriller or mystery book; it is a drama about the lives of these people and the trials – both literal and allegorical – they must overcome. Durrell’s elegiac prose is magnificent: his ability to delicately traverse between poignancy, nostalgia, and yearning, is something most authors cannot begin to rival. With a narrative that shifts between the solemnity of England and the seductive elusiveness of the Grecian archipelagos, it is a text of unbridled atmosphere and character. One of his lesser known works, this is a novel that outdoes itself until the end. Steve
Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals - later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero's Cell. The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes; Bitter Lemons, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later, The Greek Islands. Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anais Nin - and it was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- After a group of English travellers mysteriously vanish in the labyrinth of the Minotaur – a mythical maze on Greece’s Crete – the stories leading to their disappearances are recounted and resolved.
This is not a thriller or mystery book; it is a drama about the lives of these people and the trials – both literal and allegorical – they must overcome. Durrell’s elegiac prose is magnificent: his ability to delicately traverse between poignancy, nostalgia, and yearning, is something most authors cannot begin to rival. With a narrative that shifts between the solemnity of England and the seductive elusiveness of the Grecian archipelagos, it is a text of unbridled atmosphere and character. One of his lesser known works, this is a novel that outdoes itself until the end. Steve
