A review by kathleenitpdx
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

5.0

De Bernieres writes of an Ottoman village where the residents, Muslim and Christian, speak Turkish and those who write, write with the Greek alphabet. The potter, the iman, the priest, the teacher, the apothecary, the landlord, their wives and children form a wonderful interdependent community. There are friendships, loneliness, births, deaths, squabbles. Then comes war and dislocation.

This is the best of historical fiction. De Bernieres includes the story of Attaturk and with the background of the founding of the nation of Turkey, we feel the impacts on the people of a simple village.