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Violence
Some
Political intrigue; deaths; colonial power
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
A remembered affair; adult sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of political complicity, colonial entanglement, and love betrayed
What this book is about
The third Alexandria Quartet novel (1958), told in third-person from the perspective of David Mountolive, a British diplomat. Features a Coptic family's involvement in a plot against the state, and Mountolive's past affair with Leila. More conventionally plotted than the first two. For adults.
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Violence and political intrigue
Adult sexual content
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