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A review by firerosearien
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
5.0
Absolutely haunting and heartbreaking.
I was a bit wary at first, from the book's synopsis, that the entire thing would be a tragic love story, but the book is so, so much more. It's basically what happens when the Rest of the World catches up to your sleepy, timeless village and it just so happens to do so during WWI.
Not all of the characters are likable, but they are all human, and thus all real.
We pay a lot of attention to the Holocaust, and to the more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur, but what happened in Anatolia during the first world war and the aftermath should not go ignored, either.
I was a bit wary at first, from the book's synopsis, that the entire thing would be a tragic love story, but the book is so, so much more. It's basically what happens when the Rest of the World catches up to your sleepy, timeless village and it just so happens to do so during WWI.
Not all of the characters are likable, but they are all human, and thus all real.
We pay a lot of attention to the Holocaust, and to the more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur, but what happened in Anatolia during the first world war and the aftermath should not go ignored, either.