Mountolive

£350 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

"Mountolive who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country...." In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging toward war. David Mountolive, once emotionally involved with Nessim’s set, now returns to Egypt as the British ambassador....

• Binding: Hardcover

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