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Fabulous - educational and heart-rending • • • • • (bewertet mit 4 von 5 Punkten) Rezension bezieht sich auf: Birds Without Wings. (Taschenbuch) The long wait for Louis de Berniere's follow-up novel to the excellent "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" was not in vain. BWW is the superlative novel, combining a social commentary, history (without being at all boring or overly factual), wry wit in the form of the author's well-pronounced style of writing and lots of emotion. The descriptions of a soldier's life in the trenches of the Galipoli campaign were stomach-churning but not at all gratuitiously grisly as they could have been. Set in what is now Turkey at the end of the Ottoman Empire, the novel covers the horrors of war, racial and religious hatred, the impact of ethnic cleansing on a community and national fanaticism. I found the overall tone of the novel, like in his other works, is that it is normal people going about their daily lives that suffer the most at the hands of those in power: those who inflict this suffering, such as the revered Ataturk, emerge unscathed and glorious. De Bernieres does not shy away from revealing the many faults of those who have gone down in history as great men. The anti-war theme seen in CCM and the impact it can have on soldiers is here, as is de Berniere's touching portrayals of a community's every day existence, all tied up with the hidden, underlying message that it is love that makes life worth living despite all the hardship and suffering people inflict on each other: love between a man and a woman, between comrades and friends and the love humans have for creatures weaker than themselves, i.e. animals. The subject matter may be bleak, but the author has the unique talent for showing the beauty of life amid all the ugliness and hatred. This is a great novel. Bravo Louis de Bernieres! Eine Rezension von Ein Kunde vom 31. Januar 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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