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Written by Lawrence Durrell - Audio book performed by Nigel Anthony - Abridged Fiction with music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky & Smetana - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3.9 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks

The politics of love, the intrigues of desire ... love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria's streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms - moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot d counter-plot…

In Balthazar, the second volume in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the story and the characters come more clearly into focus. Darley, the reflective Englishman, receives from Balthazar, the pathologist, a mass of notes which attempt to explain what really happened between the tempestuous Justine, her husband Nessim, Clea the artist, Pursewarden the writer; new figures emerge and play key roles. Balthazar, in his 'Interlinear', explains and warns.