250 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1960 by Dutton.
250 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1960 by Dutton.
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.