The acclaimed first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, and the celebrated story of an all-consuming love transcending time and place


Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exquisite and challenging modern novel that explores tragic love and the fluidity of recollection. Employing a fluctuating narrative and poetic prose, Durrell recounts his unnamed narrator's all-encompassing romance with the intoxicating Justine. The result is a matchless work that confronts all we understand and believe about sexual desire, identity, place, and the certainty of time.

This ebook contains a new introduction by Jan Morris.

If you enjoy JUSTINE, please note that on November 13, 2012, Open Road Integrated Media will release the never-before-published novel JUDITH by Lawrence Durrell. Debuting one hundred years after the author's birth, Judith is a breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction.