Corelli's Mandolin
By Louis De Bernieres; Stephen Lang (Read by)
(Random House Audio, Compact Disc, Abridged, 9780375417214)
Publication Date: January 9, 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Historical - General
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14 CDs/ 17 1/2 hours
Read by
Also available unabridged on cassette.
Newly released movie tie-in edition.
The time -- fifty years ago. The setting -- the Greek Island of Cephallonia -- an idyllic world that is only slowly entering the twentieth century when the inexorable and transforming tide of World War II rolls onto its shores.
Louis de Bernieres's stunning novel chronicles the lives of the people of Cephallonia as they contend with the Axis invasion and occupation, and the unexpected acts of God and man that shape their lives during the five decades that follow. It chronicles the days and nights of the island's inhabitants -- the widowed doctor, his brainy daughter and her innocent (or deadly) fisherman fiance, the wine-besotted priest, the gentle strongman giant, the ancient political debaters down at the tavern, and the uninvited newcomers: in particular, the reluctant head of the Italian garrison -- the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli -- and his aide-de-camp, who harbors a well of secrets and shame.
Corelli's Mandolin is a tale of human tenderness in an age of barbarism.
Stephen Lang's film credits include Gettysburg, Tombstone, and The Last Exit to Brooklyn. He starred on Broadway in Hamlet and appeared in A Few Good Men, Death of a Salesman, and Saint Joan.
Louis de Bernieres was born in 1954. After four disastrous months in the British army, he left for a village in Columbia, where he worked as a teacher in the morning and a cowboy in the afternoon. He returned to England, where he was employed as a mechanic, a landscape gardener, and a groundsman at a mental hospital. He published a trilogy of tragicomic novels, including The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman.
"Brims with all the grand topics of literature--love and death, heroism and skull-duggery, humor and pathos, not to mention art and religion. . . . A good old-fashioned novel." --Washington Post Book World
"An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent"--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Stunning. . . . A high-spirited historical romance. . . . Remarkable." --The New York Times Book Review
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