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| Authors: |
Louis de Bernieres |
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Hugh Bonneville |
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Family & Relationships · History · |
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Kirkus: "[A]n epic chronicle of the making of modern Turkey....Enormously readable, intermittently brilliant, honorably conceived and felt...." |
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Format: Paperback, 553
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc (June 28, 2005)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.9 lbs.
ISBN: 9781400079322 |
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<I>Birds Without Wings</I> is the story of a small town in Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the men and women (Armenians, Christians, and Muslims) whose lives are intertwined and rooted there: Iskander, the potter and local fount of wisdom; Philotei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd, a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness; and many more. When jihad is declared against the Franks and the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Iskander's son, Karatavuk, to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence, just as the town he left behind is robbed of its centuries-old peace by the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism that the war unleashed. |
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