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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Random House (2010)
9780099540861
560 pages | 130 x 198 mm | English
Dewey 823.914

Genre

  • Love Stories

Subject

  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Historical

Plot

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiancé - a member of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?