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An edition of Birds Without Wings (2004)

Birds Without Wings

Vintage Canada Edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (6 ratings) ·
  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières 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 Wings is an enchantment.
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Vintage Canada
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Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, History, Social conditions, Fiction, Fathers and sons, Relations, Christianity, Soldiers, City and town life, Islam, interfaith relations, World War, 1914-1918 in fiction, Fathers and sons in fiction, City and town life in fiction, Islam in fiction, Turkey in fiction, Soldiers in fiction, World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey -- Fiction., World War, 1914-1918, Large type books, Fiction, historical, Fiction, religious, Fiction, war & military, Fathers and sons, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Turkey, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Romans, nouvelles, Christianisme, Vie urbaine, Pères et fils, Bevölkerung, Feindschaft, Griechisch-Türkischer Krieg, Kleinstadt

People

Karatavuk, Iskander, Philothei, Ibrahim, Musafa Kemal, Abdulhamid Hodja, Ayse, Charitos, Drosoula, Leyla, Mehmetçik, Polyxeni, Rustem Bey

Places

Turkey, Gallipoli Peninsula, South West Anatolia

Times

World War, 1914-1918, Mehmed V, 1909-1918, 1288-1918

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Birds Without Wings
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Birds Without Wings
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Traum aus Stein und Federn
2006-06, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Birds Without Wings
2005, Vintage Canada
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Traum aus Stein und Federn
2005, S. Fischer
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Vogels zonder vleugels
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Birds Without Wings
2004, A.A. Knopf Canada
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Birds Without Wings
2004, Alfred A. Knopf
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2004, Random House Large Print
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Copyright Date
2004

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6054.E132B.914

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Epub

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26615136M
ISBN 10
0307424995
ISBN 13
9780307424990
OCLC/WorldCat
701052713
British National Bibliography
C2004-906979-9
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0012SMGLK
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43246034

Work Description

Birds Without Wings is a novel by Louis de Bernières, written in 2004. 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. The characters are unwittingly caught up in historical tides outside of their control.

The book's title is taken from a saying by one of the characters, Iskander the Potter, "Man is a bird without wings, and a bird is a man without sorrows." The book includes a vivid and detailed description of the horrors of life in the trenches during World War I. Some of the characters are also present in the author's earlier novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

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The people who remained in this place have often asked themselves why it was that Ibrahim went mad.
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