Birds Without Wings
Louis de Bernieres
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings
traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a
town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed
peacefully for centuries.
When war is declared and the
outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism
lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is
destroyed. Birds Without Wings is a novel about the personal and
political costs of war, and about love: between men and women; between
friends; between those who are driven to be enemies; and between
Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the
Goatherd, who has courted her since infancy. Epic in sweep, intoxicating
in its sensual detail, it is an enchanting masterpiece.
In his first novel since 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.
traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a
town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed
peacefully for centuries.
When war is declared and the
outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism
lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is
destroyed. Birds Without Wings is a novel about the personal and
political costs of war, and about love: between men and women; between
friends; between those who are driven to be enemies; and between
Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the
Goatherd, who has courted her since infancy. Epic in sweep, intoxicating
in its sensual detail, it is an enchanting masterpiece.
In his first novel since 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.
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Godina:
2004
Izdavač:
Knopf Canada
Jezik:
english
ISBN 10:
0307368874
ISBN 13:
9780307368874
Fajl:
EPUB, 628 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2004
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