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Bitter Lemons

Bitter Lemons
Lawrence Durrell

Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years he spent on the island of Cyprus. The book was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957, the second year the prize was awarded.

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“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.”

Lawrence Durrell book Bitter Lemons

Bitter Lemons (1957)

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