Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War - Sebastian Faulks

A #1 bestseller in England, this novel is at once a magnificently erotic love story and a savagely powerful evocation of the carnage of World War I. A young Englishman, devastated by his tragic love affair with a married Frenchwoman, joins the army in 1916 and finds himself behind German lines, transformed into both death's agent and its dispassionate witness. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this overpowering and beautiful novel ( The New Yorker ), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, c rafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.