by Louis de Bernières · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782715225381
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«Des oiseaux sans ailes» is the historical novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Mercure de France in paperback (736 pages, in French).
In Eskibahtché, a village in Anatolia where Greeks and Turks, Christians and Muslims live together, Philotéi is born in 1900, loved by Ibrahim, the shepherd. While the European powers clash and Mustafa Kemal creates the Turkish state, the inhabitants are dragged into conflicts they do not understand and that put their community to the test.
French edition from the Bibliothèque étrangère collection, with translation from English by Fanchita Gonzalez Baille. Original title: Birds Without Wings.
For readers of historical fiction and war narratives, particularly 20th-century Turkey.
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.
