{"product_id":"birds-without-wings-9781400079322","title":"Birds Without Wings","description":"In his first novel since \u003cb\u003eCorelli's Mandolin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Louis de Bernières 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. It's a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn't 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, \u003cb\u003eBirds Without Wings\u003c\/b\u003e is an enchantment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis de Bernières's first three novels are \u003cb\u003eThe War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts\u003c\/b\u003e (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), \u003cb\u003eSe-or Vivo and the Coca Lord\u003c\/b\u003e (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and \u003cb\u003eThe Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman\u003c\/b\u003e. The author was selected by Granta as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. \u003cb\u003eCorelli's Mandolin\u003c\/b\u003e won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book, in 1995. His last book was\u003cb\u003e Red Dog\u003c\/b\u003e, published in 2001.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749279596818,"sku":"9781400079322","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_03b0a67f-d759-47ce-a9d6-d7331cf00d6d.jpg?v=1764075062","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/birds-without-wings-9781400079322","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}