by Louis de Bernières · BBC Audiobooks · Audio CD · ISBN 9780563536673
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«Captain Corelli's Mandolin» is the audiobook of the novel by Louis de Bernières, read by Robert Powell, published by BBC Audiobooks on Audio CD, in English.
The story, set in Cephalonia during World War II, follows Doctor Iannis and his daughter Pelagia. The Italian occupation brings Captain Antonio Corelli to the island, a cultured officer in love with his mandolin, and with him a romance that flourishes while the conflict transforms the loyalties of the inhabitants and tests the lovers.
It belongs to the BBC Radio Collection; it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in 2002. It consists of 3 CDs.
For listeners who prefer audiobooks and for those who want to enjoy a radio adaptation of the novel.
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
