Balthazar

by Lawrence Durrell
Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury

Read by Nigel Anthony

Produced by Nicolas Soames

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‘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 and 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.

Music: Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Smetana

  

3 CDs • Running Time: 3:56:14 • ISBN: 9-62634-046-0 • Catalogue no: NA304612 • RRP: £13.99

Also available as part of the complete box set of The Alexandria Quartet