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In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It's a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn't Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.
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Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernières
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Birds Without Wings
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Louis de Bernières
- Publisher
- A.A. Knopf Canada
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 648
- ISBN10
- 0676976948
- ISBN13
- 9780676976946
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Friendship, Military Fiction, Wars, 20th century, Death, English Literature, World War I (1914–1918), Greece, Villages, Turkey, Muslims, Ottoman Empire, Christians, Armenia, Coexistence
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- Birds Without Wings
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It's a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn't Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.