Imprint:
London : Vintage, 1995.
Collation:
434 pages. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1994.
A novel, winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1995.
First published: Secker & Warburg, 1994.
Summary:
Moving from tenderness and sardonic wit to clinical horror, this epic novel encompasses cruelty, humour, love and friendship, hope and despair. 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?
ISBN:
9780749397548 (pbk)
0749397543 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
823.9'14
G
DEB
F
Local Class:
FIC
AF
F
SEN
Fiction
SF
FT PBK
BER
SF BER 8
Index Terms:
English fiction
AR 8.1
Second World War
Higher English
World War II
Greece
Love
Relationships
War
leastreadbook
Love story
Bookgroup
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