Awards

• Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
• Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
• Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003
• Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003.
• Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize 1995.
• Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book 1995.
• Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book 1995.
• Winner of Whitaker Platinum Book Award 2001.

Overview

25th anniversary edition of this cherished story of love, loss, war and heroism - from one of our bestselling authors 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily Mail 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 over time he proves himself to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When Pelagia, the local doctor's daughter, finds her letters to her fiance go unanswered, Antonio and Pelagia draw close and 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? 'Louis de Berni res is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste' Evening Standard

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Brims with all the grand topics of literature -- love and death, heroism and skull-duggery, humor and pathos, not to mention art and religion...A good old-fashioned novel. <br>-- Washington Post Book World <br> An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent <br>-- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Stunning...A high-spirited historical romance...Remarkable. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review <br> His novel will give pleasure to all sorts of readers. It is also so good that it will last. <br>--A.S. Byatt writing in Evening Standard<br> <br> Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history...it's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest. <br>-- Observer<br> <br> A wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope and tremendous iridescent charm. <br>--Joseph Heller <br> It is funny, heartbreaking, and horrifying in its fictional testimony....Captain Corelli's Mandolin, delightful and sad, comic and at the same time nearly unbearable in its portrayal of European darkness during the war, is a tour de force depiction of the triumph of life over evil by one of Europe's great comic writers of our time. <br>-- Booklist<br> <br> Dazzling....a fabulous book in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dickens....So joyous and heartbreaking, so rich and musical and wise, that reading it is like discovering anew the enchanting power of fiction. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle

Brims with all the grand topics of literature -- love and death, heroism and skull-duggery, humor and pathos, not to mention art and religion...A good old-fashioned novel. <br>-- Washington Post Book World <br><br> An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent <br>-- Los Angeles Times Book Review <br><br> Stunning...A high-spirited historical romance...Remarkable. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review <br><br> His novel will give pleasure to all sorts of readers. It is also so good that it will last. <br>--A.S. Byatt writing in Evening Standard<br> <br> Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history...it's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest. <br>-- Observer<br> <br> A wonderful, hypnotic novel of fabulous scope and tremendous iridescent charm. <br>--Joseph Heller<br><br> It is funny, heartbreaking, and horrifying in its fictional testimony....Captain Corelli's Mandolin, delightful and sad, comic and at the same time nearly unbearable in its portrayal of European darkness during the war, is a tour de force depiction of the triumph of life over evil by one of Europe's great comic writers of our time. <br>-- Booklist<br> <br> Dazzling....a fabulous book in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dickens....So joyous and heartbreaking, so rich and musical and wise, that reading it is like discovering anew the enchanting power of fiction. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle

Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia, this is a tale of the inhabitants of that island throughout World War II. The story centres on the love between the doctor's daughter Pelagia and the Italian officer Antonio Corelli, with a pageant of other characters, animals, catastrophes and joys so rich, so funny, so rewarding, that only superlatives can be used to describe this luscious novel. (Kirkus UK)

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Louis de Berni res is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels, the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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