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Birds Without Wings
- Author
- Louis de Bernières
- Narrator
- Christopher Kay
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 3 July 2014
- Run Time
- 28 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Louis de Bernières
- Narrator
- Christopher Kay
- Duration
- 28 hours
- Release Date
- 3 July 2014
- ISBN
- 9781471271519
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: the local Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; a Christian girl of legendary beauty; childhood friends who play in the hills above the town, and the two holy men of different faiths, who greet each other with the words 'infidel efendi'. It tells also of Mustafa Kemal, the man of destiny, who by virtue of military genius and sheer bloody-mindedness defeats the Franks and reshapes the whole region in his image...
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