num_pages: 256
description: In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.
language: English
title: Bitter Lemons
titlecomplete: Bitter Lemons
characters: Makarios III, Austen Harrison, John Lehmann, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, Gerald Durrell, Claude-Marie Vincendon, Sir Harry Luke, Lawrence Durrell, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Rose Macaulay, Sir Robert Armitage, Georgios Grivas
genres: Biography, Greece, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Travel, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 2404
places: British Empire, Nicosia, Cyprus, Bellapaix, Kyrenia
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Penguin Books