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Birds Without Wings
[Paperback - 2005]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Uk | ISBN: 9780099478980 | Pages: 625
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The story of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. When jihad is declared against the Allies, the young men of the town are sent to war. As the great world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres.

Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international best-seller.On 16 July 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts by the De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was Leicester Polytechnic.Politically, he identifies himself as Eurosceptic and has voiced his support for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

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