Posted on 24/07/04
An Ottoman epic
Birds Without WingsBy Louis de BernièresKnopf Canada, 625 pages, $36.95It's been 10 years since Louis de Bernières's much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published, nine since it was honoured with the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and three since Hollywood stripped it of all its charm and fervour -- the very things that made the book so glorious -- and offered it up as a politically castrated piece of wooden sentimentality. Trust Hollywood to take Kobe beef -- beer- and music-fed and massaged by loving hands -- and grind it into meat loaf.
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