The Black Book Harper Voyager distinguished by the breadth of

distinguished by the breadth of its vision

is trying to make a living as a diviner

to his city or to himself

Ten years later he is targetted in a vicious attack mounted by his father's increasingly violent political enemies

hostile tribes and the cold touch of betrayal yet his troubles have only just begun

The Black Book Harper Voyager distinguished by the breadth ofDurrell's third work, the original angry young novel, was first published by his good friend and long time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short lived "Villa Seurat" imprint of the Paris based Obelisk Press. Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel, no work better captures the anguish and death consciousness of a Europe about to plunge, once again, into cataclysmic war and destruction