A special anniversary edition of the bestselling and much-loved classic published for the centenary of the First World War.
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.
Product details
Publisher : Vintage Books (9 August 1994)
Language : English
Paperback : 528 pages
ISBN-10 : 0099387913
ISBN-13 : 978-0099387916
Item Weight : 371 g
Dimensions : 12.9 x 3.3 x 19.8 cm
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