num_pages: 347
description: An unnamed art collector becomes obsessed with a portrait of a woman named Justine, and his hours spent smoking opium and looking at the painting send him rushing around London looking for her, as his sense of what is real and what is fantasy disappears
language: English
title: Justine
titlecomplete: Justine
characters: Josh Scobie, Clea Montis, L.G. Darley, Paul Capodistria, Justine Hosnani, S. Balthazar, Percy Pursewarden, Nessim Hosnani, Melissa Artemis, Gaston Pombal
genres: Fiction, Egypt, Historical, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 8794
places: Egypt, Alexandria,  
series: Alexandria Quartet
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: G K Hall & Co