LOUIS DE BERNIERES

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 in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.

"* 'Louis de Bernleres 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"

En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una isla griega invadida por los alemanes se desarrollará una inolvidable historia de amor entre una lugarela y un oficial italiano. Una pequeña historia de amor que encarna todas las historias de amor del mundo

Escrita en clave de humor delirante, Dioniso Vivo y el señor de la coca resulta una brillantísima sátira que recrea una ficción tal vez no muy alejada de la realidad de algún lejano país latinoamericano. La joven esposa del presidente Veracruz da a luz un gato como inesperada consecuencia de sus experimentos de alquimia sexual. Ante semejante maravvilla de la naturaleza, Veracruz despierta de su impune placidez de político corrupto, y no es que decida dejar de ser latino bananero que es, sino que de ahora en adelante será un déspota ilustrado en los misterios de las artes herméticas. En medio de tanto disparate, el profesor de filosofía Dionisio Vivo decide enfrentarse al cartel de narcotraficantes enviando cartas a la prensa y recibe como respuesta una nada desdeñable advertencia en forma de corbata colombiana. Es decir, los narcos le dejan en su jardín a un señor con la garganta seccionada dejando entrever su rosada lengua, y no será el último. En una convulsa ciudad en la que impera la "ley de la plata o el plomo" o aceptas el soborno o apareces muerto en el jardín de Vivo los presidentes de la nación son salvados milagrosamente por arcángeles y las prostitutas se encarnan en primeras damas. Entretando un hombre, condenado a la miseria por culpa del amor, sobrevive espantado a sus sesiones como a moscas, es decir, con poca eficacia.

Brillante narración del autor de La mandolina del capitán Corelli sobre el amor y el odio, los conflictos de convivencia entre religiones y el gran absurdo que entraña cualquier guerra. La vida de los habitantes de una pequeña poblacion costera de Anatolia, a principios del siglo XX, es un ejemplo de armonia: cristianos, musulmanes y armenios comparten sus tradiciones, su amor y su amistad. Pero con la desintegracion del Imperio Otomano, la guerra acabara con todos sus sueños.

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation… The second part of a trilogy, following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.

'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.'

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries.

A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corellis Mandolin. Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage.

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORA 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.