Birdsong

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Hutchinson, 1993 - Fiction - 407 pages
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.

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SEBASTIAN FAULK's books include the number one bestseller "A Week in December, A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Charlotte Gray" and "Birdsong," which has sold more than three million copies. In 2011 he wrote and presented the four-part television series "Faulks on Fiction "for BBC Two.

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