Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres

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EAN: 9780099553991
Published: 4 Aug 2011

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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. Ostracised at first, he proves in time to be peace-loving, humorous - and a consummate musician.

A burgeoning love with the local doctor's daughter, whose letters to her fiancé - and members of the underground - go unanswered, seems inevitable. But can it survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?

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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
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