by Louis de Bernières · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749397548
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«Captain Corelli's Mandolin» is the historical and romantic novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Vintage Books in paperback (544 pages, in English).
In 1941, the Italian captain Antonio Corelli arrives in Cephalonia with the occupying forces. The locals receive him with suspicion, but his affable character, his humour and his musical mastery eventually integrate him. Pelagia, the doctor's daughter, awaits answers from her fiancé; her relationship with Corelli intensifies as the war approaches.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1995, this paperback edition was published in May 1995.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction set during the Second World War, with a love story in occupied Greece.
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
