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An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year

A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

“Mountolive, who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country.”

In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden, and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging towards war.

David Mountolive, once emotionally involved with Nessim’s set, now returns to Egypt as the British ambassador.

Editorial Reviews

“Nicholas Boulton is the perfect narrator for the third book in the cherished Alexandria Quartet. And no, you needn't have listened to the others; this novel is a universe unto itself. Boulton fully inhabits the often drunk, always stuffy, plainly ridiculous characters who ran the empire on which a British sun refused to set…This witty tragedy will have you chortling happily until it wrings your heart…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile

“Mountolive is British Ambassador to Egypt and it is through his eyes and the eyes of various of his friends, both British and Egyptian, that we are shown the actual facts of the political and religious intrigue that has been motivating the Hosnani family…The work is an impressive, exacting, and exciting study of the many faces of truth, with the varieties of love as a major secondary theme against which to test the first.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Author Bio: Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He attained fame in 1957 after publishing Justine, the first volume of his ambitious Alexandria Quartet series, and several of his novels became New York Times bestsellers. He published many other novels, including in the Avignon Quintet series and the Revolt of Aphrodite series, as well as stand-alone novels.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Fiction/Classics
Publisher:	Naxos	Publisher:	Naxos
CDs:	9	CDs:	1
Runtime:	11.55
ISBN:	9798200812967	ISBN:	9798200812974
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

Mountolive

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