25th anniversary edition of this cherished story of love, loss, war and heroism - from one of our bestselling authors
Louis de Berni res is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels, the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.
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
*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
*The Times*
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