Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Reading Guide Edition)

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Reading Guide Edition)

by Louis De Bernieres (Author)

Synopsis

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 conscien-tious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consumate musician. when the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance 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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: Limited edition
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Sep 2005

ISBN 10: 0099496984
ISBN 13: 9780099496984
Book Overview: One of 15 limited edition Vintage Future Classics published to celebrate Vintage's 15th birthday. The 15 titles were voted for by reading groups all over the UK as being books that would still be read in 100 years time.

Media Reviews
A tall tale and a serious work of literature...its reputation suggests that one should read it, and so far I would have to agree -- Nigel Rodenhurst * Times Higher Education *
'Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste' * Evening Standard *
'An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothnes s 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 *
Author Bio
Louis de Bernieres' first three novels are The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The author was selected as one of the Granta twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Captain Corelli's Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book, 1995. His most recent book is Birds Without Wings.