{"product_id":"2000003455324","title":"Balthazar: The Alexandria Quartet, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘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...’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Music: Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Smetana\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naxos Audiobooks Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47087376433392,"sku":"2000003455324","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2000003455324_p0.jpg?v=1763537042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2000003455324","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}