Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernires
Category: Novel
Narrator: John Lee
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults
In his first novel since Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernires 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. Its a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isnt 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., Originally published 2004., Note: For some reason the cover art that comes with this audiobook erroneously names Hugh Bonneville as narrator. The metadata and audio itself both say John Lee. The cover is original to the
