Captain Corelli's Mandolin: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS

Author: de Bernieres, Louis

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 560

Release Date: 08-03-2010

model number: 9780099540861

Part Number: 9780099540861

Details: Product Description
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician.When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiancé - a member of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?
Review
A wonderful epic novel ―
The Times

Louis de Bernières is the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... His novel will give pleasure to all sorts of readers -- A.S. Byatt ―
Evening Standard

An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history... It's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest ―
Observer

A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet. He deals with death and love and tragedy... This is a novel to be prized ―
Daily Mail

Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope and tremendous, iridescent charm - and you can quote me -- Joseph Heller
About the Author
Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are
So Much Life Left Over,
The Dust That Falls From Dreams and
The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection
Labels and the poetry collection
The Cat in the Treble Clef.

EAN: 9780099540861

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches

Languages: English