Constance: Or, Solitary Practices

The third volume of the Avignon Quintet—shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize—from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.

Durrell's beautiful Avignon Quintet continues with this harrowing, tumultuous installment. Here the protagonist is Constance, a psychoanalyst and mystic struggling for clarity in a world on fire with war, hatred, and inexplicable brutality. Her quest for sanity takes her through the deserts of Egypt (and into the arms of the leader of a suicide cu...