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Birds Without Wings

Louis de Bernières

Paperback | Pages: 554 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 11504 Users | 1249 Reviews

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Original Title:	Birds Without Wings
ISBN:	1400079322 (ISBN13: 9781400079322)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Setting:	Ottoman Empire Turkey

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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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Title	:	Birds Without Wings
Author	:	Louis de Bernières
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 554 pages
Published	:	June 28th 2005 by Vintage (first published April 24th 2004)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. Literature. Novels. Audiobook

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Ratings: 4.16 From 11504 Users | 1249 Reviews

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I have read a number of books by de Bernieres the first being Captain Corelli's Mandolin, (I enjoyed both the book and the film) I then went on read The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, then The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (two of his Colombian trilogy) which I didnt particularly enjoy as they were in the magical mystery genre of Gabriel García Márquez, whom Bernières greatly admires. However I thoroughly enjoyed Birds without Wings and was blown away by the vast amount of

The story of how modern Turkey came to be, as told through the life of a village near Fethiye, Telmessos that was, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Turkey really is the crossroads of continents, which only means that it has been the marching ground of armies since civilization began. de Bernieres' description of the fighting and the atrocities before, during and after World War I leave you feeling that no matter how horrible was the forced relocation of Greek Turks to Greece and Turkish Greeks

I so wish that the editor had been a bit more stringent with this book so that more people would read it! Even adoring the book as I did, I found I would have preferred it with one or two fewer plot lines. It is an incredibly historically informational novel peopled with (a few too many) warmly flawed and incredibly real characters. I think the author's ability to provide a variety of viewpoints (via the different Muslim, Catholic, Turkish and Greek characters we meet) on a time period that is

The people who remained in this place have often asked themselves why it was that Ibrahim went mad. I am the only one who knows, but I have always been committed to silence, because he begged me to respect his grief, or, as he also put it, to take pity on his guilt.Set in southwestern Anatolia (today Turkey) before and during World War I, Birds Without Wings is a wonderful novel about a small village and the people who live there. Prior to the war, the community is made up of Muslims and

I loved this book. It's now on my list of all-time favorites.The writing is lush and gorgeous and witty and empathetic. The many characters come alive and are very compelling. The setting is a little village in southwest Turkey, not too distant from Symrna (Izmir), and the time is the WW I period. The story is mostly told from the point of view of the various villagers and occasionally from the view of Mustafa Kemal (on his way to becoming Ataturk).We get a fascinating view of Turkish village

Since I only got to page 181 and then DNF, I will not rate this. The writing is exceptional and in that high count, lyrical to fine drawn and ethnic specific characterizations well done- long word count copy style. The style that many other readers find most masterful and nearly poetic in flows. But that in this context of story and characters have left me nearly numb. The place and the people seem so petty, mean-spirited and tied up in multiple traditional minutia of every ilk (religion being

Tracing the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the modern republic of Turkey, this novel alternates the first and third person narratives of a range of characters from the fictional town of Eskibahçe (meaning Garden of Eden) in southwest Turkey with an account of the life of Mustafa Kemal, later Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first leader of modern Turkey. At the turn of the 20th century, the inhabitants of Eskibahçe comprise Muslim Turks, Christians of Greek origin and Armenians. They live