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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history:"An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.… (mehr)
thepequodtwo: Both de Bernieres and Kushner skillfully intertwine multiple story threads and characters to create a sense of time and place both passing and changing that is vivid and powerful.
paulkid: Both are set in Mussolini's Italy, although Wouk's work spends time in Germany, Russia, and England while de Bernières spends time in Greece as well.
Spannende dramatisch-romantische Geschichte vor dem historischen Hintergrund des deutschen Massakers an italienischen Soldaten im Griechenland des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Lesefutter mit elementen des "magischen Realismus". ( )
Down some cold field in a world unspoken / the young men are walking together, slim and tall, / and though they laugh to one another, silence is not broken; / there is no sound however clear they call. /
They are speaking together of what they loved in vain here, / but the air is too thin to carry the things they say. / They were young and golden, but they came on pain here, / and their youth is age now, their gold is grey. /
Yet their hearts are not changed, and they cry to one another, / 'What have they done with the lives we laid aside? / Are they young with our youth, gold with our gold, my brother? / Do they smile in the face of death, because we died?' /
Down some cold field in a world uncharted / the young seek each other with questioning eyes. / They question each other, the young, the golden hearted, / of the world that they were robbed of in their quiet paradise. /
Humbert Wolfe
Widmung
To my mother and father, who in different places and in different ways fought against the Fascists and the Nazis, lost many of their friends, and were never thanked.
Erste Worte
Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.
Zitate
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‘Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other’s presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant.’
‘And another thing. Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like a volcano and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever be apart. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body... That is just being ‘in love’ which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.'
Letzte Worte
She had a deeply serious expression on her face as she immersed herself in the newspaper and with elegant fingers tried to prevent the pages from flapping in the breeze.
Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history:"An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Corelli's Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.
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