Quinx or The Ripper's Tale
With Quinx Lawrence Durrell completes his Avignon Quintet, a quincunx of highly original novels to rival his famous Alexandria Quartet.
In Quinx thc characters converge on Avignon in the immediate aftermath of the war. Tribes of gypsies from all över Europe are moving down through Provence for their festival at the church of Les Saintes Maries de la Mer in the Camargue. Lord Galen discovers from a fortune teller that whereabouts of the Templar treasure, lost for centuries, is known to the gypsies and to Smirgel, the wartime double agent and lover of Livia. The great climax of the book as everyone, real and illusory, gathers below the Pont du Gard at banquet for the opening of the treasure-sanctuary, is one of Mr Durrell's most magical pieces of descriptive writing.
Inb. med sk.omsl. Faber and Faber, 1985, 201 sid.
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