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: Lawrence Durrell, John Lehmann, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, Makarios III, Rose Macaulay, Austen Harrison, Sir Robert Armitage, Claude-Marie Vincendon, Gerald Durrell, Georgios Grivas, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Sir Harry Luke
genres: Classics, Autobiography, History, Travel, Biography Memoir, Biography, Greece, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2404
places: Cyprus, Nicosia, Kyrenia, Bellapaix, British Empire
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Da Capo Press