Mountolive

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 384 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

ISBN:9780571356041

Published:6 May 2021

Weight:322g

Dimensions:131 x 197 x 28 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

年轻的英国外交官大卫·蒙托利夫（David Mountolive）自从年轻时的一段恋情后，就一直对埃及着迷。在第二次世界大战前夕，他作为英国大使回到亚历山大，揭开了一个错综复杂的政治和阴谋--这个阴谋连接着各种不同的人物，包括流亡的教师和迷人的埃及夫妇。Mountolive逐渐揭露了这些纠缠不清的关系的阴暗面，他们的欺骗和背叛反映了现代中东的爆炸性动荡--是Durrell富电影感的杰作。

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by William Boyd (bestselling author of Any Human Heart and Restless).

'A master at creating and handling tension ... I was fascinated from the start.' Wilbur Smith

David Mountolive, a young English diplomat, has been obsessed with Egypt ever since a youthful love. Returning to Alexandria as British Ambassador just before World War Two, he unravels an intricate political and religious conspiracy - one that connects a web of wildly different characters, including an exiled schoolteacher and glamorous Egyptian couple. Mountolive gradually exposes the sinister underbelly of these tangled relationships, their deceptions and betrayals mirroring the explosive turmoil of the modern Middle East - and the result is Durrell's most cinematic masterpiece.

'Astonishing ... A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.' New York Times Book Review

'A masterpiece ... Don't be fooled by the richness of the prose, the depth of the passions ... Wicked and funny.' Guardian

'Dazzlingly exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition, wonderfully prolific in invention ... Superb.' Observer

VOLUME THREE OF LAWRENCE DURRELL'S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

作者简介

劳伦斯·杜瑞尔1912年出生于英属印度的贾朗达尔，是一位广受好评和喜爱的小说家、诗人、幽默大师和旅行作家，以《亚历山大四重奏》小说而闻名，被《现代图书馆》列为二十世纪英国文学伟大的作品之一。杜瑞尔从小就是一位充满激情和执着的作家，他多产的作品还包括开创性的《阿维尼翁五重奏》，其一部小说《先生》（1974年）获得了詹姆斯-泰特-布莱克纪念奖，第三部小说《康斯坦丝》（1982年）获得了布克奖的提名。他还撰写了知名的旅行回忆录《塞浦路斯的苦涩柠檬》（1957），该书获得了达夫·库珀奖。杜瑞尔与作家亨利-米勒通信45年，米勒影响了他的许多早期作品，包括一部具有挑衅性和争议性的小说《黑书》（1938年）。杜瑞尔于1990年在法国去世。

Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Lawrence Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. A passionate and dedicated writer from an early age, Durrell’s prolific career also included the groundbreaking Avignon Quintet, whose first novel, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and whose third novel, Constance (1982), was nominated for the Booker Prize. He also penned the celebrated travel memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. Durrell corresponded with author Henry Miller for forty-five years, and Miller influenced much of his early work, including a provocative and controversial novel, The Black Book (1938). Durrell died in France in 1990.

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