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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

ISBN: 9780099387916
Release Date: 18 Jul 1994
Average rating: (read by 168 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

Set before and during the great war, "Birdsong" captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

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	brianaishton
	Rated it 1 months ago

Probably the best book I have ever read.

	JacqAlex Full Review
	Rated it 2 months ago

This book is beautifully written. The first section examines a love affair between the main character and the wife of a frenchman in whose home he is staying. The rest of the book focuses on the First World War, and gives graphic and harrowing accounts...

	comfyhobo Full Review
	Rated it 3 months ago

I heard about Birdsong on a trip to France, by the crater left by the explosion in the war made by the "sewer rats". The first part of the book didn't really capture me, as it was more of a love story than anything else, and later I felt disorientated...

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