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De Bernières, Louis.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey -- Fiction.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- Fiction.
Turkey -- Fiction.
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De Bernières, Louis.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey -- Fiction.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- Fiction.
Turkey -- Fiction.
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Birds
without
wings
/ by Louis de Bernières.
by
De Bernières, Louis.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Call #:
FICTION DEB
Subjects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey -- Fiction.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) -- Fiction.
Turkey -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1400043417 (2004 Knopf)
9780676976946 (2004 Knopf Canada hc.)
0676976948 (2004 Knopf Canada hc.)
Description:
624 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
The story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people–Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent–whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial wisdom; Karatavuk–Iskander’s son–and Mehmetçik, childhood friends whose playground stretches across the hills above the town, where Mehmetçik teaches the illiterate Karatavuk to write Turkish in Greek letters. There are Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, holy men of different faiths who greet each other as "Infidel Efendi"; Rustem Bey, the landlord and protector of the town, whose wife is stoned for the sin of adultery. There is a man known as "the Dog" because of his hideous aspect, who lives among the Lycian tombs; and another known as "the Blasphemer," who wanders the town cursing God and all of his representatives of all faiths. And there is Philothei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd–a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. But
Birds
Without
Wings
is also the story of Mustafa Kemal, whose military genius will lead him to victory against the invading Western European forces of the Great War and a reshaping of the whole region. When the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Karatavuk to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence. And in the town he left behind, we see how the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism unleashed by the war quickly, and irreversibly, destroy the fabric of centuries-old peace.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Religious fiction.
Epic fiction.
War fiction
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Adult Fiction
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