Birds without wings : a novel / Louis De Bernieres.
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2004Description: xi, 553 pages : 21 cm map (black and white)Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1400079322
- 823 .D286
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Print Materials | Main Library General Circulation | 823 .D286 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0114944 |
"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 enhancement." - Provided by publisher.
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