by Louis De Bernières · Editions Denoël · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782207242759
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«La mandoline du capitaine Corelli» is the novel by Louis De Bernières published by Editions Denoël in paperback (544 pages, in French).
Set in Cephalonia during the Second World War, it tells the relationship between Pelagia, daughter of Doctor Iannis, and the Italian captain Antonio Corelli, whose mandolin is his treasure. The occupation, the partisans and the atrocities test their loyalties, in a novel that alternates voices to explore love and history.
The work, originally published in English as «Captain Corelli’s Mandolin», received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1995.
For reading groups and readers of historical and romantic fiction set during the Second World War.
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.
