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CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN
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| By: |
Louis de Bernieres |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0436201585 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780436201585 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
11 April, 1994 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Following THE TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN, a novel set on a Greek island in 1940 about the eternal triangle that develops between a doctor's daughter, her fisherman fiance and a young officer who is billeted in the doctor's house. |
| Synopsis: |
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Whitaker Platinum Book Award 2001
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book 1995
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003
Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |