25th anniversary edition of this cherished story of love, loss, war and heroism - from one of our bestselling authors
Louis de Berni res is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels, the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.
A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy
*Daily Mail*
A tall tale and a serious work of literature…its reputation
suggests that one “should” read it, and so far I would have to
agree
*Times Higher Education*
Stunning... A high-spirited historical romance...remarkable.
*New York Times Book Review*
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 wonderful epic novel...it has made him a name to conjure with.
Both on the large and the small scale it is an absorbing and
memorable book...the sweep, invention and warmth of the novel
carries one effortlessly along
*The Times*
Hypnotic...a vast tapestry woven in tiny, colourful, intricate
detail...a graphic and moving commentary on the futility of war.
This magical book stayed in my head long after I had finished
it
*Marian Keyes*
Captain Corelli's Mandolin achieves that rare feat of saying
something new about war...fusing with remarkable felicity the
cosmic and the tragic, the lyrical and the epic... And without
offering easy answers, it poses difficult questions about love and
suspicion, trust and betrayal, faith and despair, creativity and
destruction
*Times Literary Supplement*
Louis de Bernières 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*
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*
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a wonderful, hypnotic novel of
fabulous scope and tremendous, iridescent charm - and you can quote
me
*Joseph Heller*
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