false 3395 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452188m/3395.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452188s/3395.jpg 3399 23 1690547 2004 Birds Without Wings total:1063|5:388|4:399|3:204|2:58|1:14| 1063 4278 1648 222 2313 3.92 7725 1038 12480581 774847 3399 1400079322 9781400079322 164 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190m/3399.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190s/3399.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3399.Birds_Without_Wings 4.06 826 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.]]> 2004 4 4 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 14 09:15:44 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 09:30:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 47478239 589132 3399 1400079322 9781400079322 164 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190m/3399.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190s/3399.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3399.Birds_Without_Wings 4.02 1063 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.]]> 2004 5 1 false Wed Feb 25 07:32:54 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 07:36:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 31709403 158686 1320110 0099484935 9780099484936 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182730906m/1320110.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182730906s/1320110.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1320110.Birds_Without_Wings 4.05 104 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.]]> 2004 3 1 false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 05:34:47 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 07:15:18 -0700 2008
This book is about the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the author simultaneously contrasts the happenings of the international political world with that of a small cast-away village where Greek Christians and Turkish Mus...more...]]> 46432239 1846248 3399 1400079322 9781400079322 164 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190m/3399.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190s/3399.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3399.Birds_Without_Wings 4.02 1063 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.]]> 2004 4 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 12:45:16 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 12:47:15 -0800 2009 45459665 1008236 3397 1400043417 9781400043415 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452189m/3397.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452189s/3397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3397.Birds_Without_Wings 3.90 52 Corelli’s Mandolin, was met with the highest praise: “Behind every page,” said Richard Russo, “we sense its author’s intelligence, wit, heart, imagination, and wisdom. This is a great book.” A. S. Byatt placed the author in “the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh.” Now, de Bernières gives us his long-awaited new novel. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of love–between men and women, between friends, between those who are driven to be enemies.

It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people–Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent–whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial wisdom; Karatavuk–Iskander’s son–and Mehmetçik, childhood friends whose playground stretches across the hills above the town, where Mehmetçik teaches the illiterate Karatavuk to write Turkish in Greek letters. There are Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, holy men of different faiths who greet each other as “Infidel Efendi”; Rustem Bey, the landlord and protector of the town, whose wife is stoned for the sin of adultery. There is a man known as “the Dog” because of his hideous aspect, who lives among the Lycian tombs; and another known as “the Blasphemer,” who wanders the town cursing God and all of his representatives of all faiths. And there is Philothei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd–a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. But Birds Without Wings is also the story of Mustafa Kemal, whose military genius will lead him to victory against the invading Western European forces of the Great War and a reshaping of the whole region.

When the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Karatavuk to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence. And in the town he left behind, we see how the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism unleashed by the war quickly, and irreversibly, destroy the fabric of centuries-old peace.

Epic in its narrative sweep–steeped in historical fact–yet profoundly humane and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is a triumph.]]> 2004 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:27:22 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:27:22 -0800 2009 The ten years since the runaway success of De Berni_ãres' Corelli's Mandolin have provided ample time for reviewers to sharpen their pencils. But potshots at his new novel are scarce, at least on this side of the Atlantic. Critics applaud the author's continued liberties with point of view, but the ...

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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.]]> 2004 5 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:39:16 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:51:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 20878856 888539 3399 1400079322 9781400079322 164 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190m/3399.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1163452190s/3399.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3399.Birds_Without_Wings 4.02 1063 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. 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