His novel will give pleasure to all sorts of readers A.S. The love story though is perhaps the least of it. Louis de Bernières is the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. Louis de Bernieres presents the story of a doomed love that endures many decades, and though you have to run with some fairly unlikely behaviour in order to push this storyline to its ultimate conclusion I defy any reader not to feel a warm glow at the end. Stunning.a high-spirited historical romance. A good old-fashioned novel Washington Post Book WorldĪn exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent Los Angeles Times Book Review This is a novel to be prized Daily MailĬaptain Corelli's Mandolin is a wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope and tremendous, iridescent charm - and you can quote me Joseph Hellerīrims with all the grand topics of literature - love and death, heroism and skull-duggery, humor and pathos, not to mention art and religion. He deals with death and love and tragedy. It's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest ObserverĪ master of haunted realism. An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history.
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