Birdsong
Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
A special anniversary edition of the bestselling and much-loved classic published for the centenary of the First World War. A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front. His love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, he experiences the unprecedented horrors of that conflict -- from which neither he nor any reader of this book can emerge unchanged.
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Sebastian Faulks was the 1994 British Book Awards Securicor Omega Express Author of the Year.
Winner of Whitaker Gold Book Award 2001 and Enid McLeod Literary Prize 1993. Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for 14 years before taking up writing books full time in 1991. He is the author of A Trick of Light, The Girl at the Lion D'Or, A Fool's Alphabet, The Fatal Englishman, Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, On Green Dolphin Street, Human Traces, and most recently, A Week in December.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.371
- : 31 December 1993
- : 199mm X 131mm X 33mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sebastian Faulks
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.914
- : 528
- : Modern fiction