Birds Without WingsKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18.12.2007 - 576 Seiten In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Berničres creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment. |
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Am Philothei 2 | 37 |
Mustafa Kemal 3 | 38 |
The Humiliation of Daskalos Leonidas | 230 |
Mustafa Kemal 10 | 243 |
Am Philothei 9 | 246 |
Of Righteousness and Wrongdoing | 248 |
Mustafa Kemal 11 | 252 |
The Exchange | 256 |
The Sadness of Rustem Bey | 267 |
A Small Act of Kindness | 270 |
IO How Karatavuk and Mehmetçik Came to Be Called Karatavuk and Mehmetçik | 40 |
Ibrahim Gives Philothei a Goldfinch | 46 |
The Proof of Innocence 1 | 48 |
A Bad Start | 57 |
Mariora Returns to the Light | 63 |
The Message to Mariora | 73 |
Mustafa Kemal Infantry Lieutenant 1474 4 | 78 |
Of Reading and Writing | 80 |
Am Philothei 3 | 84 |
The Telltale Shoes | 85 |
Mustafa Kemal 5 | 98 |
Am Philothei 4 | 101 |
Ayse Remembers Tamara | 102 |
Tamaras Refuge | 107 |
Am Philothei 5 | 116 |
Tales from the Journey to Smyrna | 117 |
Mustafa Kemal 6 | 134 |
The Tyranny of Honour | 137 |
The Humiliation of Levon the Armenian | 143 |
Am Philothei 6 | 148 |
Mustafa Kemal His Own Policeman 7 | 150 |
The Circassian Mistress 1 | 152 |
The Circassian Mistress 2 | 156 |
The Circassian Mistress 3 | 162 |
Rustem Bey and Leyla Hanım | 173 |
Am Philothei 7 | 182 |
A Cure for Toothache | 183 |
Mustafa Kemal 8 | 189 |
Exiled in Cephalonia Drosoula Remembers Leyla and Philothei | 192 |
The Seduction of Rustem Bey | 201 |
The Veiling of Philothei | 212 |
An Embarrassing Question | 220 |
Mustafa Kemal 9 | 222 |
Am Philothei 8 | 226 |
In Which a Playful Conversation Takes a Bad Turn | 227 |
The Removal | 273 |
Olives | 283 |
Mustafa Kemal 12 | 284 |
The Letter from Karatavuk | 286 |
Karatavuk Remembers 1 | 297 |
Karatavuk Remembers 2 | 304 |
Karatavuk Remembers 3 | 309 |
Mustafa Kemal 13 | 313 |
Am Philothei 10 | 316 |
The Letter to Karatavuk | 318 |
Karatavuk Remembers 4 | 324 |
Mustafa Kemal 14 | 335 |
Karatavuk Remembers 5 | 337 |
Fikret and the Goat 6 | 339 |
The Death of Fikret 7 | 342 |
Mustafa Kemal 15 | 354 |
Tamara Receives a Visitor | 365 |
The Death of Abdulhamid Hodja | 377 |
Mustafa Kemal 16 | 384 |
Lieutenant Granitolas Occupation 1 | 391 |
Mustafa Kemal 17 | 399 |
Lieutenant Granitolas Occupation 2 | 406 |
Mustafa Kemal 18 | 418 |
So Mustafa Kemal 19 | 426 |
Mustafa Kemal 20 | 438 |
Mustafa Kemal 21 | 445 |
Mustafa Kemal 22 | 459 |
Exodus | 466 |
Leyla Hanıms Letter to Rustem Bey | 482 |
The Wounding of Karatavuk | 507 |
What the New Imam Did | 525 |
The Epilogue of Iskander the Potter | 532 |
The Epilogue of Karatavuk the LetterWriter | 545 |
POSTSCRIPT | 552 |
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Abdul Abdulhamid Hodja Anatolia anyway Arab Armenian arms army arrived asked Ayse backgammon beautiful become birds boys British called Cephalonia Charitos Christians Circassian donkey Drosoula Efendi Enver Enver Pasha Eskibahçe eyes face Father Kristoforos feel felt Fethiye Fikret Frankish Franks Gallipoli gendarmes Gerasimos girls goat Granitola Greece Greek hamam hand happened head heard heart husband Ibrahim imam Iskander Iskander the Potter Istanbul Italians Karatavuk Kardelen killed kissed knew labour battalions Leonidas Levon Leyla Hanım lips live looked Louis de Berničres Lydia Mehmetçik meydan mother Muslims Mustafa Kemal never night Osman Ottoman Pasha Philothei Polyxeni realised remember Rustem Bey Salonika Sergeant shit side smiled Smyrna soldiers someone stones suddenly Sultan Tamara tell Telmessos things thought told tombs took town trenches troops Turkish Turks turned whilst wife woman women wonder