Ebook {Epub PDF} Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières' rapaciously sensuous writing makes the pages of this book crackle with heat and resonate with birdsong Birds Without Wings is superbly written, gathering people and their hearts and souls and all their baggage of loss and hope together in one place and giving a point to life. It is, in every sense, a sublime book."/5(). 8 rows ·  · Louis de Bernières' rapaciously sensuous writing makes the pages of this book crackle with Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. "[Birds Without Wings] bears de Bernières’ literary hallmarks — vast emotional breadth, dazzling characterisation, rich historical detail (and gruesome battle scenes), swerving between languid sensuality and horror, humour and choking despair." —Scotland on Sunday "Dazzlinga fabulous book in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dickens/5().

Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres. Hardback. UK first edition, first printing. Book inscribed on title page "For Masy with much love Louis de Bernieres Jacket in very good condition, small crease to front top right corner and a little bumping to edges. Jacket has not been price clipped. The most eagerly awaited novel of the year In counterpoint to the varieties of love, Birds Without Wings delivers the hideous violence of mechanised warfare. Its page centrepiece, in which Karatavuk (Blackbird) recounts the terror, squalor and fitful heroism of the Gallipoli campaign, will have critics reaching for their War and www.doorway.ru truth, de Bernières is too centrifugal. Buy Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £

Birds Without Wings is a novel by Louis de Bernières, written in Narrated by various characters, it tells the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim. It also chronicles the rise of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the 'Father of the Turkish Nation'. The overarching theme of the story covers the impact of religious intolerance, over-zealous nationalism, and the war that often results. [Birds Without Wings] bears de Bernières' literary hallmarks — vast emotional breadth, dazzling characterisation, rich historical detail (and gruesome battle scenes), swerving between languid sensuality and horror, humour and choking despair. The New Zealand Herald. About This Books. Set on the eve of World War I, Birds Without Wings tells the story of Eskibahçe, a charming and vibrant ethnically mixed town in present-day Turkey, and how it is irrevocably changed by the ravages of nationalism, war, and religious fervor. Before the war, Eskibahçe is filled with a wild assortment of characters, Christian and Muslim, Turkish and Armenian, the mad and the sane, the rich and the poor, living side by side in remarkable harmony.