{"product_id":"birds-without-wings-9781400079322","title":"Birds Without Wings","description":"In his first novel since \u003cb\u003eCorelli's Mandolin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Louis de Bernières 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, \u003cb\u003eBirds Without Wings\u003c\/b\u003e is an enchantment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400079322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2005 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/28\/2005 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/04\/2009 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Louis de Bernieres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52051640746165,"sku":"9781400079322","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/birds-without-wings-9781400079322","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}