by Louis de Bernières · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724116785
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«Bandolim do Capitão Corelli» is the historical romance novel by Louis de Bernières, published by ASA Literatura in paperback (512 pages, in Portuguese).
On the Greek island of Cephalonia, young Pelagia lives through the Italian occupation, the German invasion and the communist repression during the Second World War. Her relationship with Captain Corelli, an Italian officer who loves the mandolin, becomes a fragile refuge: can love resist hatred, madness and death?
Work originally published in English as «Captain Corelli's Mandolin» (1994); won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1995. Portuguese translation by José Vieira de Lima.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction, romance and war novels; frequently appears in reading clubs.
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.
