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Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings( )
Author: de Bernières, Louis
ISBN:978-0-436-20555-2
Publication Date:Jul 2004
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Harvill Secker
Book Format:Hardback
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Book Description:

Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great love culminating in tragedy and madness; Karatavuk and Mehmet-ik, childhood friends who play in the hills above the town, Mehmet-ik teaching the illiterate Karatavuk how to write...
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Book Details
Pages:640
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Religious
Fiction / War & Military
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War I
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.7 x 23.7 x 4.9 cm
Book Weight:1.242 Kilograms
Author Biography
de Bernières, Louis (Author)
Louis de Bernières was born on December 8, 1954, in England to a military family. He spent four months in the British army in his late teens.

When he was nineteen, he spent a year in Colombia where he wrote a short story about a true incident of violence that occurred there. Fifteen years later, while recuperating from a motorcycle accident, de Bernières used that short story as the basis for the first volume of his Latin American Trilogy, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman.

In the 1980s, de Bernières worked as an auto mechanic and then as a supply teacher in London. In 1993 he took a holiday on the Greek island of Cephallonia. That became the setting for Captain Correlli's Mandolin, a novel of war, love, and heroism, which remained on the (London) Times bestseller list for four years. It has sold more than 600,000 copies, has been reprinted in paperback more than thirty times, and has been translated into more than seventeen languages.The book also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year.

De Bernières was named one of Granta's 20 Best British Novelists in 1993, and Author of the Year 1998 by England's Publishing News. He will be give the opening night address at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival. His title The Dust that Falls from Dreams made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015

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