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  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113828
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 640
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Birds Without Wings




'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 fabric of life is destroyed. Birds Without Wings is a novel about the personal and political costs of war, and about love: between men and women; between friends; between those who are driven to be enemies; and between Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd, who has courted her since infancy. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, it is an enchanting masterpiece.

'A mesmerising patchwork of horror, humour and humanity' Independent

  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113828
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 640
Categories:

About the author

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corellis Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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Praise for Birds Without Wings

A magnificent, poetic, colossal novel... Superbly written... It is, in every sense, a sublime book

Irish Times

A mesmerising patchwork of horror, humour and humanity

Independent

A more ambitious novel than Captain Corelli, and a better one

Financial 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