{"product_id":"birds-without-wings-paperback-1","title":"Birds Without Wings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis de Bernieres\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his first novel since \u003cb\u003eCorelli's Mandolin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003eBirds Without Wings\u003c\/b\u003e is an enchantment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin,\" Louis de Bernieres 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis de Bernières's first three novels are \u003cb\u003eThe War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts\u003c\/b\u003e (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), \u003cb\u003eSe-or Vivo and the Coca Lord\u003c\/b\u003e (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and \u003cb\u003eThe Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman\u003c\/b\u003e. The author was selected by Granta as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. \u003cb\u003eCorelli's Mandolin\u003c\/b\u003e won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book, in 1995. His last book was\u003cb\u003e Red Dog\u003c\/b\u003e, published in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47259189084409,"sku":"9781400079322","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aqkrnEXm2I9781400079322_45e67b00-085d-4888-a2cc-dd802a557712.webp?v=1768768135","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/birds-without-wings-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}