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.
Balthazar.

Lawrence Durrell: Balthazar. (1961, Pocket Books)
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247 pages
Published July 10, 1961 by Pocket Books.
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