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- Sales Rank: #1254428 in Books
- Published on: 1957
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Marand
I started reading this book whilst on holiday in Cyprus. My knowledge of the political history of Cyprus was sketchy, largely confined to the ancient past or the period immediately preceding the Turkish invasion in 1974. 'Bitter Lemons' records Durrell's experiences of living in what is now Turkish-occupied Cyprus in the years 1953-6. He arrived as a private citizen, looking for a place to settle and began teaching at a school in Nicosia. Shortly afterwards he accepted a Government position, essentially as a PR adviser although I suspect there was rather more to it than the low key role Durrell describes, if only because of his access to senior people within the colonial administration.The book begins in high spirits, describing Durrell's initial experiences. There is a fabulous description of the house-buying process - almost a knockabout comedy - whereby he acquires a rundown house in the village of Bellapaix. You get a real feeling of his affection for the people around him and their reciprocation: unlike most expats living in Cyprus he wants to immerse himself in local life, something made easier by his ability to speak Greek (the inability of many expats who had lived in Cyprus for years to speak the language appalls Durrell). The characters that Durrell comes across come alive on the page. All this makes his final visit to the village before he leaves Cyprus unbearably sad.Fairly quickly the book begins to describe the political situation in Cyprus, with the development of the Enosis movement which sought independence from the British and union with Greece. Durrell can see both sides and has friends in both communities. He also has a somewhat conflicted view of the presence of the British in Cyprus which presence has failed to provide a university or even a public swimming pool, and, he feels, has impeded Cypriot development. As tensions rise Durrell muses on the mutual distrust and suspicion - "the evil genius of terrorism" - that develops. Durrell also sees well that the British are between a rock and a hard place. Shortly before he leaves Cyprus, with the situation fast deteriorating, he writes: "The very decisions which were operationally necessary to the present situation were political lunacy for whatever must follow upon the present." He also highlights the difficulties for those working on the ground in Cyprus of the failure of the British government for years to take notice and act in relation to the Cypriot situation - "we had all of us been made the clowns of short sightedness at home" to the point where military solutions took precedence over political solutions.The book is beautifully written, with evocative descriptions of people and places, yet at the same time it provides a background to the political situation and divisions in Cyprus which persist to this day, sixty years on. It isn't a political analysis but puts the events of the 1950s in the context of ordinary people, their fears and hopes and the impact the situation had on them.
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By Anais
a great book. However, I wish the publishers would use a better quality binding - I took it on holiday (to Cyprus) and the heat melted the glue .....!
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By The Prodigal Son
I lived in Cyprus for about a year and I have read and re-read this book a number of times. However, the more I read about Durrell and the more I read of the books that he has written, the more I feel that I no longer understand him at all, not even vaguely. In particular, I have just finished "Prospero's Cell", which relates to his first sojourn in the Greek-speaking world (in Corfu) and my reactions to "Prospero's Cell" have now influenced my feelings about "Bitter Lemons". In everything that I've read by Durrell so far, he says explicitly, and also implies, that he is a hellenophile of the highest order. Yet, throughout the book, his attitude to the Greek Cypriots is arrogant and patronising. Additionally, in the second half of the book, it is clear that his sympathies in the struggles between the Greek Cypriots and the British administration lie with his masters in the British administration. In addition, it is almost impossible to discern his real feelings about the Turkish Cypriot minority because of his contradictory representations of them... in the few places that he bothers to mention them at all. For example, the man who finds his house for him, Sabri, is a Turkish Cypriot. Durrell describes Sabri's "reptilian", "lizard-like", phlegmatic, stoic approach to life, yet Sabri makes a very sound choice of house for Durrell and deals extremely diplomatically and astutely with the Greek family that is selling the house. Additionally, Durrell writes that this "is not a book about politics", yet spends the entire second half of the book writing about that very subject, and in very great detail.So, perhaps the best policy with this book is to do as another reviewer, Julianthebarbarian, suggests: only read the sections on village life and skip the second half of the book (about the politics) entirely.
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