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Birdsong

A Novel of Love and War

A Novel of Love and War

By Sebastian Faulks

By Sebastian Faulks

By Sebastian Faulks

By Sebastian Faulks

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $19.00

Jun 02, 1997 | ISBN 9780679776819

Ebook $13.99

Mar 21, 2012 | ISBN 9780307820389

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    About Birdsong

    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s

    In this “overpowering and beautiful novel” (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.

    About Birdsong

    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s

    In this “overpowering and beautiful novel” (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.

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    About Sebastian Faulks

    Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing full-time in 1991. In 1995 he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for Birdsong. He is also the author of Human Traces, On Green… More about Sebastian Faulks

    About Sebastian Faulks

    Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing full-time in 1991. In 1995 he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for Birdsong. He is also the author of Human Traces, On Green… More about Sebastian Faulks

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Romance | Military Fiction

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 02, 1997 | 496 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679776819

    Category: Historical Romance | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 21, 2012 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9780307820389
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    Praise

    “An overpowering and beautiful novel… Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one.” –Simon Schama, New Yorker

    “With Birdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war… This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again.” —Sunday Express

    “Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable.” –The Times

    “Amazing… I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit.” —Daily Mail

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