{"product_id":"9780099387916_461","title":"Birdsong by Faulks, Sebastian | Subject:Literature \u0026 Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description 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. Review Magnificent - deeply moving (Sunday Times)WithBirdsong Faulks has produced a mesmerizing story of love and war... This book is so powerful that as I finished it I turned to the front to start again (Sunday Express)Amazing... 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 (Daily Mail)An overpowering and beautiful novel... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing, Birdsong is not a perfect novel, just a great one (Simon SchamaNew Yorker)Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable (The Times) From the Inside Flap In 1910 a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, goes to Picardy, France, to learn the textile business. While there he plunges into a love affair with the young wife of his host, a passion so imperative and consuming that it changes him forever. Several years later, with the outbreak of World War I, he finds himself again in the fields of Picardy, this time as a soldier on the Western Front. A strange, occasionally bitter man, Stephen is possessed of an inexplicable will to survive. He struggles through the hideously bloody battles of the Marne, Verdun, and the Somme (in the last named, thirty thousand British soldiers were killed in the first half hour alone), camps for weeks at a time in the verminous trenches, and hunkers in underground tunnels as he watches many of the companions he has grown to love perish. In spite of everything, Stephen manages to find hope and meaning in the blasted world he inhabits.Sixty years after war's end, his granddaughter discovers, and keeps, Stephen's promise to a dying man. Sebastian Faulks brings the anguish of love and war to vivid life, and leaves the reader's mind pulsating with images that are graphic and unforgettable. From the Back Cover \"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 About the Author Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks?s books includeA Possible Life,Human Traces,On Green Dolphin Street,Engleby,Birdsong,A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. FRANCE1910Part OneThe boulevard du Cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens. The wagons that rolled in from Lille and Arras to the north drove directly into the tanneries and mills of the Saint Leu quarter without needing to use this rutted, leafy road. The town side of the boulevard backed on to substantial gardens, w\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Used Good | Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Used Good","offer_id":42955995742454,"sku":"9780099387916_R1_W3_A4","price":99.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3857\/8002\/products\/41tyPNj5q5L_5940bea8-7bd0-4e40-b3cd-bffeaec06ceb.jpg?v=1648487968","url":"https:\/\/www.worthing.in\/products\/9780099387916_461","provider":"Worthing.in","version":"1.0","type":"link"}