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From the author of "Captain Corellis Mandolin" comes the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the peopleChristians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descentwhose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. [Random House]
Alfred A. Knopf, 576 pages
08/24/2004
$25.95
ISBN: 1400043417
Fiction
Historical Fiction
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The average user rating for this book is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Erick M gave it a9:
As informative for a budding novelist as any book in the last ten years. Louis de Bernieres has a way of peeling back the petals and muck of history to delightful ends.
Jean C gave it a9:
A great sprawling account of Turkey's rocky road to independance! Wonderful language; geat images, amazing characters... show humanity of all people whatever their religion or nationality. Reading this book made me read about the events between the Turks, Kurds, Greeks, Italians, Armenians following the first Word War. Margaret MacMillan's 'Paris 1919', chapters 26 & 29 are directly related to the events in 'Birds without Wings. I just loved this book; but then I'm a real fan of de Bernieres.

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