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  • The Alexandria Quartet, Book 2
  • Written by: Lawrence Durrell
  • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
  • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Balthazar

Written by: Lawrence Durrell
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
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"The politics of love, the intrigues of desire, good and evil, virtue and caprice, love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria’s streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms - moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot and counter-plot."

In Balthazar, the second volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the story and the characters come more clearly into focus. Darley, the reflective Englishman, receives from Balthazar, the pathologist, a mass of notes that attempt to explain what really happened between the tempestuous Justine, her husband, Nessim, Clea the artist, and Pursewarden the writer; new figures emerge and play key roles. Balthazar, in his "Interlinear", explains and warns.
©1958 Lawrence Durrell (P)2021 Naxos AudioBooks UK Ltd.
Classics Historical Fiction Genre Fiction
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Such beautiful writing

I agree with the narttator's aside about the "beautiful description" (ìn chpter 4, I believe).

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