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Birds Without Wings

Von: Louis de Bernieres
Gesprochen von: John Lee
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 Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences.

But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War, the sweep of history has a cataclysmic effect on this peaceful place: The great love of Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim, a Muslim shepherd who courts her from near infancy, culminates in tragedy and madness; Two inseparable childhood friends who grow up playing in the hills above the town suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the bloody struggle; and Rustem Bey, a wealthy landlord, who has an enchanting mistress who is not what she seems.

Far away from these small lives, a man of destiny who will come to be known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is emerging to create a country from the ruins of an empire. Victory at Gallipoli fails to save the Ottomans from ultimate defeat and, as a new conflict arises, Muslims and Christians struggle to survive, let alone understand, their part in the great tragedy that will reshape the whole region forever.©2004 Louis de Bernieres (P)2004 Books on Tape Belletristik Historische Romane

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Why You Should Download This Audiobook: Hard to put into words the effect of this powerful historical novel. British author Louis de Bernieres has essentially created a world of vivid, finely drawn characters, whose simple lives will change irrevokably in the wake of World War I. Like the best novels based on real events, de Bernieres' Birds Without Wings enriches the listener's understanding of a period in history while revealing with great sensitivity the impact of terrible events on human lives.

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What a stunning, captivating ride. Imagine a The Pillars of the Earth but with a focus on believable individual stories, without exaggerated heroism. Of the beauty of a common life without romanticizing the past. Louis de Bernières doesn't mince matters displaying the violence, tragedy and absurdity of war, social engineering, ethnic cleansing on the path to modern Turkish and Greek national states.

I recommend this book to anyone with a fancy in historic novels who is either interested in discovering the life of people so close, yet so far - at least for me as Swiss - or, more abstractly speaking, in the result of brutal ethical and cultural nationalization of the early 20th century.

About the narration:

John Lee made a fantastic job narrating this beautiful novel. Unfortunately, even for an Audio book more than 20 hours long, he didn't bother doing any research about the pronunciation of Turkish or Greek words. Hereby I don't mean "accent less" pronunciation, but basics as for example pronouncing Ayşe as [ɑjʃɛ] (Ayshe) and not Aisa. As the narration was opted to be theatrical, imitating accents and moods, these somewhat frequent mistakes take some of the dept of the production.

Stunning

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Haben Sie vorher schon ein Hörbuch mit John Lee gehört? Wie würden Sie beide vergleichen?

john lee ist mein lieblingsleser!

Hat dieses Hörbuch Sie emotional stark bewegt? Mussten Sie laut z.B. lachen, weinen, zweifeln, etc.?

ja!

Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?

verständlich gelesen, spannend, berührend.
allerdings sollte man ein gewisses interesse an geschichte mitbringen.

einfach perfekt!

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I enjoyed this book immensely, and as always John Lee's narration. The only minor disturbance to me was the wrong pronounciation of Somme Turkish and Greek names and expressions. However I loved the story and the characters and learned a lot about that time.

Fascinating History Lesson

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