- Published: 15 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781448161157
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 112
Imagining Alexandria
Formats & editions
- Published: 15 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781448161157
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 112
De Bernieres captures with quiet assurance that Cavafy music of resigned, sensual sadness as lovers depart, gods retreat and dynasties collapse
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Delightful
Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
Direct, evocative, erotic and tinged with sadness. What more should poetry be?
Telegraph
Love dominates ... we are told the truth about love – even when it is awkward or lacking ... the rum enthusiasm fuelling this collection endears it to the reader
Kate Kellaway, Guardian
Today the culture of Greece may be facing a new crisis, but many will welcome de Bernières’s revisiting of the "miracle period"
Margaret Reynold, The Times