Justine: Introduced by André Aciman
Alexandria, the great winepress of love. Trams, palm trees, and watermelon stalls lie honey-bathed in sunlight. In darkened bedrooms, sweaty lovers unfurl. But in a world trembling on the brink of war, passion and death are inextricable. When a penniless schoolteacher begins an affair with Justine – a married Egyptian lady of unparalleled glamour – their partners are sucked into a whirlpool of jealousy and violence.
One of the world’s greatest romances, rich in political and sexual intrigue, Lawrence Durrell’s scandalous ‘investigation of modern love’ set the world alight in 1957 and as André Aciman reveals, it burns just as brightly today.
