Louis de Bernieres, Author . Knopf $25.95 (553p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4341-5
It's been nearly a decade since Captain Corelli's Mandolin
became a word-of-mouth bestseller (and then a major feature film), and devotees will eagerly dig into de Bernières' sweeping historical follow-up. This time the setting...
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Louis de Bernieres, Author . Knopf $21 (185p) ISBN 978-0-307-26887-7
De Bernières (Corelli’s Mandolin
) delivers an oddball love story of two spiritually displaced would-be lovers. During a dreary late 1970s London winter, stolid and discontented Chris is drawn to seedy and mysterious Roza, a Yugoslav &ea
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Louis de Bernieres, Author Vintage Books $15 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-76397-0
De Bernieres mixes history and fantasy in this love story set on an idyllic Greek island torn apart by Nazi occupation. (Sept.)
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Louis de Bernieres, Author Pantheon Books $24 (437p) ISBN 978-0-679-43644-7
Heartbreaking, beautiful and deeply moving--if not always entirely believable--de Bernieres's extraordinary novel is based on a historic episode: the Nazis' occupation of the sleepy Greek island of Cephallonia and their slaughter of thousands of...
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Louis de Bernieres, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (363p) ISBN 978-0-688-11129-8
A blend of scathing political satire and magic realism, De Bernieres's furiously sardonic, intensely lyrical first novel portrays an imaginary, impoverished Latin American country run by an oligarchy, terrorized by fascist army officers and propped...
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Louis de Bernieres, Author William Morrow & Company $21 (251p) ISBN 978-0-688-11130-4
The wild satire and inventive fantasy that marked de Bernieres' first novel, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, reverberate through this audacious story of drug trafficking, corruption, love and murder. In an unnamed South American country...
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Louis de Bernieres, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (363p) ISBN 978-0-688-12583-7
Like its predecessor, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts , this deftly constructed novel pokes gentle fun at the well-mined genre of magical realism while providing an exuberant portrait of a Latin America in which anything is possible. Set in...
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Louis de Bernieres, Author, Alan Baker, Illustrator . Pantheon $21 (128p) ISBN 978-0-375-42155-6
The best stories about animals are really stories about the people who form bonds with them, and therein lies the central fault of this extremely slender effort from the celebrated author of Corelli's Mandolin. Apparently, de Bernières...
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Louis de Bernieres, Author, Stephen Lang, Read by Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-41720-7
This dark yet dazzling tour de force invigorates the genre of antiwar comedies in the style of Hasek, Heller and Vonnegut. Bernieres sweeps across a 50 year history of a glorious Greek Island at peace and at war and simultaneously homes in on its...
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Louis de Bernieres. Pantheon, $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-101-94648-0
De Bernieres's latest novel is an immersive, sweeping historical epic focusing on three neighboring families in England: the Pitts, the Pendennises, and the McCoshs. As the family children become close and form a small gang called the Pals, the...
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Louis de Bernières. Pantheon, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-524-74788-6
England between the two world wars is revisited in this witty and heartfelt novel. Daniel Pitt, a former RFC pilot, is married to Rosie McCosh and runs a tea factory in Ceylon. His brother, Archie, a solider on the North-West Frontier (what is...
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