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From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet, a memoir of the idyllic Greek island that is "among the best books ever written" ( The New York Times ).
The real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in Corfu
Before Lawrence Durrell became a renowned novelist, poet, and travel writer, he spent four youthful years on Corfu, an island jewel with beauty to match the long and fascinating history within its rocky shores. While his brother, Gerald, was collecting animals as a budding naturalist, Lawrence fished, drank, and lived with the natives in the years leading up to World War II, sheltered from the tumult that was engulfing Europe—until finally he could ignore the world no longer. Durrell left for Alexandria, to serve his country as a wartime diplomat, but never forgot the wonders of Corfu.
In this "brilliant" journey through that idyllic time and place, Durrell returns to the land that made him so happy, blending his love of history with memories of his adventures there ( The Economist). Like the blue Ionian Sea, Prospero's Cell is deep and crystal clear, offering a perfect view straight to the heart of a nation.
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