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Balthazar

Lawrence Durrell (1957)

SubgenreHistorical Romance
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages ()
SettingContemporary Urban
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ViolenceNot rated
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageNot rated

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Class DifferencesFriendship

Synopsis

The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.