Birds Without Wings
, by DE BERNIERES, LOUISNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781400079322 | 1400079322
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 6/28/2005
In his first novel sinceCorelli'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 Wingsis an enchantment.