Birds Without Wings (Vintage War) Exp Louis, de Bernieres

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Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great love culminating in tragedy and madness; Karatavuk and Mehmet-ik, childhood friends who play in the hills above the town, Mehmet-ik teaching the illiterate Karatavuk how to write Turkish in Greek letters; the two holy men of different faiths, Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, who greet each other with the words 'infidel efendi'; the landlord Rustem Bey, his wife's adultery and stoning, and his journey to Istanbul in search of a Circassian mistress. 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. When jihad is declared against the Allies the young men of... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Birds Without Wings (Vintage War) Exp (de Bernieres, Louis)

Полное название книги Louis, de Bernieres Birds Without Wings (Vintage War) Exp
Авторы Louis, de Bernieres
Ключевые слова проза, классическая и современная проза
Категории Художественная литература, Книги на иностранных языках
ISBN 9780099597643
Издательство
Год 2014
Название транслитом birds-without-wings-vintage-war-exp-de-bernieres-louis
Название с ошибочной раскладкой birds without wings (vintage war) exp de bernieres-louis