Translate into the same success in the USA that the book hadĪchieved in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand (where However, the overwhelmingly positive reviews did not appear to Without Wings', Louis de Bernières's first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Week's line up to have to be in the company of 'Birds 'it seems almost unfair to the other books in this When I first recommended Birds Without Wings in August 2004 It is 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. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of lovebetween men and women, between friendsĪnd between those who are driven to be enemies. Historical Fictionįrom the book jacket: de Bernières (author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin) gives us his long-awaited new novel. In 2001, Red Dog was published - a collection of stories inspired by a statue of a dog encountered on a trip to a writers' festival in Australia in fabulous book in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dickens. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001, and the novel has also been adapted for the stage. It has become a worldwide bestseller and has now been translated into over 30 languages. Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, the novel tells the story of a love affair between the daughter of a local doctor and an Italian soldier. It was also shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year. His fourth novel, Corelli's Mandolin, was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best Book). In 1993, he was selected as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2' promotion in Granta magazine. He also taught English in Colombia, an experience which determined the style and setting of his first three novels, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (1990), Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord (1991) and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (1992), each of which was heavily influenced by South American literature, particularly 'magic realism'. After graduating from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and obtained his MA at the University of London.īefore writing full-time, he held many varied jobs including landscape gardener, motorcycle messenger and car mechanic. He joined the army at 18 but left after spending four months at Sandhurst. Novelist Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954.
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