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Birds without Wings
De Bernieres L
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Description for Birds without Wings
Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1242.
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 Turkish in Greek letters; the two holy men of different faiths, Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, who greet each other with the ... Read more
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 Turkish in Greek letters; the two holy men of different faiths, Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, who greet each other with the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780436205552
SKU
V9780436205552
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Ref
99-3
About De Bernieres L
Louis de Bernières' first three novels are The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), Se-or Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The author was selected as one of the Granta twenty Best of Young British Novelists in ... Read more
Reviews for Birds without Wings
I loved its rich, relaxed humanism and was much moved by this expa nsive tale
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
it draws a big dramatic canvas embellished with jihad and passion, religion and nationalism, and of course, lots of love
Katherine Sale, Financial Times
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
it draws a big dramatic canvas embellished with jihad and passion, religion and nationalism, and of course, lots of love
Katherine Sale, Financial Times