#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990sIn this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990sIn this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
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Reviewed by JulianeThis books was disappointing. I expected something similar to "Atonement" but it wasn't at all. Until the end I could not connect to the main character Stephen or even feel any sympathy. Of course, the story shows a clear picture of the World War I and probably because of this is became a "modern classic". But honestly, without suffering with the protagonist you cannot feel the story. It is depressing. Melancholic. Cheerless. But the tragedy was missing. I didn't like Isabelle, the love interest from Stephen. The only person I think was likable was Jeanne and the reader got to read too less about her that she could save me from not liking the book. Ir took me over two weeks to finish this 500 pages book - which means a lot. Hopefully my next books in 2014 are better. In meanwhile I will watch "Atonement" :)