Birds Without Wings
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. Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd who has courted her since infancy are...
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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. Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd who has courted her since infancy are but two of the many casualties.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099478980 (0099478986)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 625
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary
4.5 Stars Birds without Wings by Louis Bernieres.A dense, mesmerising, harrowing and yet humorous novel that will bring out all emotions that a reader can experience but did not think possible in one story. Set in the peaceful fictional village of Eskibahce in south west Turkey and home to Turkish ...
*******SPOILER ALERT*******I read this as part of a larger WW1 themed study to get a more focused perspective of the Great War from the point of view of the lives of the people of Eskibahce. I was fully aware that this was a work of historical fiction but my hope was that the author would use this f...
ETA on completion: Chrissie, stoip saying you love the book. Explain why! Everything explained below remains true. Other books are emotionally captivating, intellectually interesting, filled with humor and sorrow, What is it that makes this one different for me? It is that this book has a message. I...
This book needs certain mood to read, but definitely worth it each time I pick it up at the right moment. His story telling and humour made me persevere in reading this long story. Most of all I love how succeed in showing Moslem, Greek Orthodox, and Catholic as what they really are, human. Living i...
This book is fantastically written. At the same time, it took me a month to read, during which time I read several other books.Birds Without Wings is a big, ambitious book, focusing mostly on the lives of people living in a small Ottoman village in the first decades of the 20th century. Rather than ...
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