It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international bestseller. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Louis de Bernieres is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Awards-Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1994.Education-Bradfield College Victoria University of.Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment. 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.īut all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. 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.
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