Captain Corelli´s Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres
**AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS**
'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily Mail
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals but over time he proves himself to be civilised, humorous – and a consummate musician.
When Pelagia, the local doctor's daughter, finds her letters to her fiancé go unanswered, Antonio and Pelagia draw close and the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?
'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
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The Times
Louis de Bernières is the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... His novel will give pleasure to all sorts of readers
A.S. Byatt
Evening Standard
An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history... It's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest
Observer
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 Brims with all the grand topics of literature - love and death, heroism and skull-duggery, humor and pathos, not to mention art and religion... A good old-fashioned novel
Washington Post Book World
An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Stunning...a high-spirited historical romance... Remarkable
New York Times Book Review
A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy
Daily Mail