by Louis de Bernières · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429748321
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«La mandolina del capità Corelli» is the historical novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (688 pages, in Catalan).
During the Italian occupation of Cephalonia in the Second World War, Doctor Iannis and his daughter Pelagia see their lives altered. The arrival of Captain Antonio Corelli, an Italian officer passionate about music, triggers a love story amid the conflict, with divided loyalties and harsh consequences of war.
It belongs to the collection MOLU s.XX - Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Universal Segle XX, volume 135. Catalan translation by Joan Punti Recasens. Catalan edition published in 2001.
Recommended for readers of historical and romantic fiction with a wartime backdrop.
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.
