A review by _zora_
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

4.0

A little slow getting into this, because it starts out with too-cute kids and too-zany townspeople, and I kept tripping over weird usage glitches. But after the first 100 pages or so (don't worry, 400 more to go!), it finally managed to soften my inner grouch. Tears by the end. A vivid, generous, often funny book that conveys very well the tragedy of the end of the Ottoman empire and the whole Population Exchange.