Bitter Lemons of Cyprus - Lawrence Durrell

INTRODUCTION Before my recent holiday to Cyprus, I was casting about for something topical to read, and a Greek Cypriot friend recommended Lawrence Durrell’s “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”. For some unfounded reason, I assumed it was about the 1974 conflict which cleaved Cyprus in two – undoubtedly the most significant event in modern Cypriot history - and a situation that sadly remains an open wound between the Turkic and Greek Cypriot peoples. However, the book predates that event by a couple of decades and deals with the much earlier strife in the early 1950’s when the people of Cyprus, egged on ... more