Captain Corelli's Mandolin

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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER 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 as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war? he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiancé - and members of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestiái savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender? 6Hypnotic...a vast tapestry woven in tiny, colourful, intricate detaiL.a graphic and moving commentary on the futility of war. This magicai book stayed in my head long after I had finished it5 MARIAN KEYES, IRISH TIMES CA wonderful epic növel...it has made him a name to conjure with. Both on the large and the small scale it... Tovább

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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER 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 as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war? he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiancé - and members of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestiái savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender? 6Hypnotic...a vast tapestry woven in tiny, colourful, intricate detaiL.a graphic and moving commentary on the futility of war. This magicai book stayed in my head long after I had finished it5 MARIAN KEYES, IRISH TIMES CA wonderful epic növel...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 növel carries one effortlessly along' DERWENT MAY, THE TIMES' 1 Mp | 4Captain Corelli s Mandolin achieves that rare feat of saying something new about war...fusing with remarkable felicity the comic 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' ANDRÉ BRINK, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, INTERNATIONAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR Vissza