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Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell · Booklabria

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Part ofThe Alexandria Quartet4 books in the catalogue

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First published: 1957
Editions: 73 in 6 languages
Series: The Alexandria Quartet

Synopsis

The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.

Subjects: Romance
Romance, Historical, 20th Century
Friendship
Novela
Classics
Sagas
Set in: Egypt
Alexandria

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73 in 6 languages

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English43 French8 Spanish6 German3 All 6 languages

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