It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people - Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent - whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, th
Birds Without Wings
β Scribed by Louis de Bernieres
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 384 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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