Birds Without Wings
$21.25
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2005
Summary
‘Captivating and compelling. A masterpiece’ Independent on Sunday
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries.
When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099478980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099478986 |
| Author: | Louis de Bernières |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Vintage War |
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Critics Review
A more ambitious novel than Captain Corelli , and a better one
A more ambitious novel than Captain Corelli, and a better one * Financial Times *
A mesmerising patchwork of horror, humour and humanity * Independent *
A magnificent, poetic, colossal novel… Superbly written… It is, in every sense, a sublime book * Irish Times *
His most serious and ambitious achievement to date * Times Literary Supplement *
Pleasurable… Like Steinbeck, de Bernières deserves praise for his imaginative sympathy * Independent on Sunday *
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Berni res is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter.
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