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Birds Without Wings (Vintage International) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Birds Without WingsFilled with humor and pathos, the long-awaited new novel by the bestselling author of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" tells a story about the political and personal costs of war, and of love, in one small community in southwest Turkey in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Published: 28 June 2005
- Format: Paperback 553 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781400079322 ISBN 10: 1400079322
- Sales rank: 105,778
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Full description for Birds Without Wings
In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin," " Louis de Bernieres 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.
