Birds Without Wings de Bernieres, Louis Summary In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, 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. In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, 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, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/38303/birds-without-wings-by-louis-de-bernieres/9780307424990 Perfect for fans of Arborist Merchandising Root, Self Service, Custom Stores, Islamic Religion, Family Sagas, Literary Fiction Books. Highlights Easy to enjoy: 640 pages · Hardcover By de Bernieres, Louis Details ISBN: 9780436205491 Author: de Bernieres, Louis Format: Hardcover Pages: 640 Language: English Publication date: 1 July 2004 Condition: Used – Good About the authors de Bernieres, Louis and Louis De Bernières · Publisher: Harvill Secker More about this book Reviews Sweeping saga, multi-charactered, charting events in a small coastal town in Anatolia.