de Bernieres, Louis, — Birds Without Wings.

NY, Knopf, 2004. 1ST Amer Ed. VG Hardback in VG DJ. A long-awaited new novel by the author of "Corelli's Mandolin". This is a great book that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. Prevous owner's notations, some underlining. Political and personal costs of war and love. Story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the voices of the people- Christian and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent. whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for an untold nmber of years. The author was selected one of the 20 best of young British novelists in 1993. His most recent book is Red Dog.