
Birds Without Wings Novel by Louis de Bernieres
By Louis de BernieresBirds Without Wings Novel by Louis de Bernieres
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.
Book details
- Paperback
- 642 pages
- English
- 0099478986
- 9780099478980
About Louis de Bernieres
novelist louis de bernières was born in london in 1954. he joined the army at 18 but left after spending four months at sandhurst. after graduating Read More about Louis de Bernieres
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