| Description |
xi, 553 pages : color map ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: ? The Prologue of Iskander the Potter ? -- ? Iskander the Potter Remembers the Birth of Philothei ??? -- ? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ? i am philothei (?) ??? -- ? Exiled in Cephalonia, Drosoula Remembers Philothei ??? -- ? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ? The Dog ??? -- ? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ?? How Karatavuk and Mehmetçik Came to be Called Karatavuk -- and Mehmetçik ??? -- ?? Ibrahim Gives Philothei a Goldfinch ??? -- ?? The Proof of Innocence (?) ??? -- ?? The Proof of Innocence (?): A Bad Start ??? -- ?? The Proof of Innocence (?): Mariora Returns to the Light ??? -- ?? The Proof of Innocence (?): The Message to Mariora ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal, Infantry Lieutenant ???? (?) ??? -- ?? Of Reading and Writing ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? The Telltale Shoes ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? Ayse Remembers Tamara ??? -- ?? Tamara's Refuge ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? Tales from the Journey to Smyrna ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ?? The Tyranny of Honour ??? -- ?? The Humiliation of Levon the Armenian ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal, His Own Policeman (?) ??? -- ?? The Circassian Mistress (?) ??? -- ?? The Circassian Mistress (?) ??? -- ?? The Circassian Mistress (?) ??? -- ?? Rustem Bey and Leyla Haným ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? A Cure for Toothache ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ?? Exiled in Cephalonia, Drosoula Remembers Leyla and Philothei ??? -- ?? The Seduction of Rustem Bey ??? -- ?? The Veiling of Philothei ??? -- ?? An Embarrassing Question ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (?) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? In Which a Playful Conversation Takes a Bad Turn ??? -- ?? The Humiliation of Daskalos Leonidas ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (?) ??? -- ?? Of Righteousness and Wrongdoing ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? The Exchange ??? -- ?? The Sadness of Rustem Bey ??? -- ?? A Small Act of Kindness ??? -- ?? The Removal ??? -- ?? Olives ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? The Letter from Karatavuk ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (?) ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (?) ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (?) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (??) ??? -- ?? The Letter to Karatavuk ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (?) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Karatavuk Remembers (?) ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: Fikret and the Goat (?) ??? -- Contents -- deBe1400434171pallr1.qxd 5/14/04 12:35 Page x -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: The Death of Fikret (?) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? Karatavuk at Gallipoli: The End of the Campaign (?) ??? -- ?? Tamara Receives a Visitor ??? -- ?? The Death of Abdulhamid Hodja ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (??) ??? -- ?? Lieutenant Granitola's Occupation (?) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? Lieutenant Granitola's Occupation (?) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (??) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (??) ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? Fritz and Moritz Accidentally Change History ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? Lieutenant Granitola Takes His Leave ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? I am Georgio P. Theodorou ??? -- ?? Mustafa Kemal (??) ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (??) ??? -- ?? Exodus ??? -- ?? I am Philothei (??) ??? -- ?? Leyla Haným's Letter to Rustem Bey ??? -- ?? Exiled in Cephalonia, Drosoula Remembers the -- Death of Philothei ??? -- ?? I am Ayse ??? -- ?? I am Ibrahim ??? -- ?? Drosoula Remembers the Voyage into Exile ??? -- ?? The Wounding of Karatavuk ??? -- ???????? -- ? What the New Imam Did ??? -- ? I am Karatavuk ??? -- ? Pamuk ??? -- ? The Epilogue of Iskander the Potter ??? -- ? Mehmet the Tinsman and the New Copper Dish ??? -- ? The Epilogue of Karatavuk the Letter-Writer ??? -- xi -- deBe1400434171pallr1.qxd 5/14/04 12:35 Page xi -- ?????????? -- Fethiye in the Twenty-first Century ??? -- Contents -- deBe1400434171pallr1.qxd 5/14/04 12:35 Page xii |
| Summary |
"It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people - Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent - whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial wisdom; Karatavuk - Iskander's son - and Mehmetcik, childhood friends whose playground stretches across the hills above the town, where Mehmetcik teaches the illiterate Karatavuk to write Turkish in Greek letters. There are Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, holy men of different faiths who greet each other as "Infidel Efendi"; Rustem Bey, the landlord and protector of the town, whose wife is stoned for the sin of adultery. There is a man known as "the Dog" because of his hideous aspect, who lives among the Lycian tombs; and another known as "the Blasphemer," who wanders the town cursing God and all of his representatives of all faiths |
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And there is Philothei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd - a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. But Birds Without Wings is also the story of Mustafa Kemal, whose military genius will lead him to victory against the invading Western European forces of the Great War and a reshaping of the whole region." "When the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Karatavuk to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence. And in the town he left behind, we see how the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism unleashed by the war quickly, and irreversibly, destroy the fabric of centuries-old peace."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Map on lining papers |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey -- Fiction.
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity -- Fiction.
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City and town life -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Soldiers -- Fiction.
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Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052846 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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Turkey -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113023
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Religious fiction.
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War fiction.
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| LC no. |
2004014529 |
| ISBN |
1400043417 |
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