25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'A true diamond of a novel,glinting with comedy and tragedy'Daily MailIt 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 over time he proves himself to be civilised,humorous - and a consummate musician.When Pelagia,the local doctor's daughter,finds her letters to her fiancé go unanswered,Antonio and Pelagia draw close and 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'Louis de Bernières 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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780749397548Number of pages: 560Weight: 405 gDimensions: 198 x 179 x 28 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A true diamond of a novel,glinting with comedy and tragedy.'- Daily Mail
'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
'Stunning... A high-spirited historical romance...remarkable.'- New York Times Book Review
'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 wonderful epic novel...it has made him a name to conjure with. Both on the large and the small scale it is an absorbing and memorable book...the sweep,invention and warmth of the novel carries one effortlessly along.'- Derwent May, The Times
Louis de Bernières
Immortalised as the creator of the bestselling global phenomenon Captain Corelli's Mandolin,British author Louis de Bernières was born in London and selected as one of Granta's list of'Best Young British Novelsts'in 1993. Known for his immersive,picaresque fiction,de Bernières first novels were a loosely connected sequence set in Latin America: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts,Seor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The success of Corelli ensured he need never work again but he followed the novel a decade later with Birds Without Wings; a Turkish epic inspired by War and Peace de Bernières said of it''I'm one of those writers who's always going to be trying to write War and Peace: failing,obviously,but trying.'More recently his works have included A Partisan's Daughter,The Dust That Falls From Dreams and 2018's much-anticipated So Much Life Left Over.
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