'This is one of the great novels about the early 20th century and the emerging modern world, an epic of human disaster, on small and grand scales.' - The New Zealand Herald. In paperback - to make sure that you don't miss out on this very exceptional book! It sat on the bestseller lists for some time) - which is all the more reasonįor me to tell you about it now that it has just been released Translate into the same success in the USA that the book hadĪchieved in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand (where However, the overwhelmingly positive reviews did not appear to Without Wings', Louis de Bernières's first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Week's line up to have to be in the company of 'Birds 'it seems almost unfair to the other books in this When I first recommended Birds Without Wings in August 2004 It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of lovebetween men and women, between friendsĪnd between those who are driven to be enemies. Historical Fictionįrom the book jacket: de Bernières (author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin) gives us his long-awaited new novel. Dazzling.a fabulous book in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dickens.
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