Balthazar (PocketBook)

'... the characters... are steeped through with the atmosphere and being of Alexandria, the fabulous city of many races and many religious, with all its attributes of beauty, antiquity, perversity and decadence. Among living writers there are few to equal and none to surpass Mr. Durrell in evoking the living mystery of a specific place: Balthazar is brilliant in the primary sense of the word: gleaming with light, flashing with colour and sparking with wit and perception.'