The Alexandria Quartet - Book 3
Mountolive
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“Nicholas Boulton is the perfect narrator for the third book in the cherished Alexandria Quartet. And no, you needn't have listened to the others; this novel is a universe unto itself. Boulton fully inhabits the often drunk, always stuffy, plainly ridiculous characters who ran the empire on which a British sun refused to set…This witty tragedy will have you chortling happily until it wrings your heart…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
"Mountolive, who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country."
In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden, and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging towards war.
David Mountolive, once emotionally involved with Nessim's set, now returns to Egypt as the British ambassador.
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