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Editor's Comments:
Since its publication in 1993 Birdsong has established itself as one of
the most important novels of recent years. A novel that brings alive the horrors
of war and the redemptive power of love there are few books that have moved
people as much as Birdsong or that continue to have such resonance years
after publication.
Recently voted one of the fifteen Vintage Future
Classics (one of the books that readers across the country thought that we will
still be reading in 100 years time) Birdsong is at times moving,
emotional, horrifying and enchanting but above all else it is a truly wonderful
read.
Comparison: Pat Barker, Ken Kesey, Sebastian Barry
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Synopsis
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
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Reviews
Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a prefect novel--just a great one. --Simon Schama, New Yorker
An amazing book--among the most stirringly erotic I have read for years...I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit. --Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail
This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again. --Andrew James, Sunday Express
One of the finest novels of the last 40 years. --Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday
This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it. --Nigel Watts, Time Out
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Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novel Human Traces (2005). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993 and appointed CBE for services to literature in 2002. He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
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