num_pages: 280
description: An expat schoolteacher has spent years in exile reflecting on his turmoiled love affair with Justine, a glamorous Egyptian wife. Returning to wartime Alexandria, he finds that his old friends have suffered dramatic changes of body, mind, and fortune - and someone whom he has never really known wishes to see him. His affair with Clea, a bisexual artist, not only changes the lovers, but transforms the dead, forever - and heralds a new beginning, just as Lawrence Durrell's intoxicating masterpiece ends.
language: English
title: Clea
titlecomplete: Clea
genres: Fiction, Egypt, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 2936
places: Alexandria
series: Alexandria Quartet
publisher: Faber and Faber