The Black Book Louis de Bernieres until the stone pillars shriek

until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims

an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation

and a dark magic that could destroy it all

but within itself

Following Nicholas and Anna through dangerous and exciting times

The Black Book Louis de Bernieres until the stone pillars shriekDurrell'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