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Birds Without Wings

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ISBN-10: 1400079322

ISBN-13: 9781400079322

Edition: N/A

Authors: Louis de Bernieres

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In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin," Louis de Bernieres 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…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.880

The Prologue of Iskander the Potter
Iskander the Potter Remembers the Birth of Philothei
Mustafa Kemal (1)
i am philothei (1)
Exiled in Cephalonia, Drosoula Remembers Philothei
Mustafa Kemal(2)
The Dog
I Am Philothei (2)
Mustafa Kemal (3)
How Karatavuk and Mehmetcik Came to Be Called Karatavuk and Mehmetcik
Ibrahim Gives Philothei a Goldfinch
The Proof of Innocence (1)
The Proof of Innocence (2): A Bad Start
The Proof of Innocence (3): Mariora Returns to the Light
The Proof of Innocence (4): The Message to Mariora
Mustafa Kemal, Infantry Lieutenant 1474 (4)
Of Reading and Writing
I Am Philothei (3)
The Telltale Shoes
Mustafa Kemal (5)
I Am Philothei (4)
Ayse Remembers Tamara
Tamara's Refuge
I Am Philothei (5)
Tales from the Journey to Smyrna
Mustafa Kemal (6)
The Tyranny of Honour
The Humiliation of Levon the Armenian
I Am Philothei (6)
Mustafa Kemal, His Own Policeman (7)
The Circassian Mistress (1)
The Circassian Mistress (2)
The Circassian Mistress (3)
Rustem Bey and Leyla Hanim
I Am Philothei (7)
A Cure for Toothache
Mustafa Kemal (8)
Exiled in Cephalonia, Drosoula Remembers Leyla and Philothei
The Seduction of Rustem Bey
The Veiling of Philothei
An Embarrassing Question
Mustafa Kemal (9)
I Am Philothei (8)
In Which a Playful Conversation Takes a Bad Turn
The Humiliation of Daskalos Leonidas
Mustafa Kemal (10)
I Am Philothei (9)
Of Righteousness and Wrongdoing
Mustafa Kemal (11)
The Exchange
The Sadness of Rustem Bey
A Small Act of Kindness
The Removal
Olives
Mustafa Kemal (12)
The Letter from Karatavuk
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (1)
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (2)
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (3)
Mustafa Kemal (13)
I Am Philothei (10)
The Letter to Karatavuk
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (4)
Mustafa Kemal (14)
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (5)
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Fikret and the Goat (6)
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: The Death of Fikret (7)
Mustafa Kemal (15)
Karatavuk at Gallipoli: The End of the Campaign (8)
Tamara Receives a Visitor
The Death of Abdulhamid Hodja
Mustafa Kemal (16)
I Am Philothei (11)
Lieutenant Granitola's Occupation (1)
Mustafa Kemal (17)
Lieutenant Granitola's Occupation (2)
I Am Philothei (12)
Mustafa Kemal (18)
I Am Philothei (13)
Mustafa Kemal (19)
Fritz and Moritz Accidentally Change History
Mustafa Kemal (20)
Lieutenant Granitola Takes His Leave
Mustafa Kemal (21)
I Am Georgio P. Theodorou
Mustafa Kemal (22)
I Am Philothei (14)
Exodus
I Am Philothei (15)
Leyla Hanim's Letter to Rustem Bey
Exiled in Cephalonia, Drosoula Remembers the Death of Philothei
I Am Ayse
I Am Ibrahim
Drosoula Remembers the Voyage into Exile
The Wounding of Karatavuk
Epilogue
What the New Imam Did
I Am Karatavuk
Pamuk
The Epilogue of Iskander the Potter
Mehmet the Tinsman and the New Copper Dish