| Birds Without Wings Contributor(s): de Bernieres, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400079322 ISBN-13: 9781400079322 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Romance - Multicultural & Interracial |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004014529 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.98 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Turkey - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Berni res 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. |