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Author : louis de bernires

Descripton : captain corelli s mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war before benito mussolini invaded greece dr iannis practices medicine on the island of cephalonia accompanied by his daughter pelagia to whom he imparts much of his healing art even when the italians do invade life isn t so bad at first anyway the officer in command of the italian garrison is the cultured captain antonio corelli who responds to a nazi greeting of heil hitler with his own heil puccini and whose most precious possession is his mandolin it isn t long before corelli and pelagia are involved in a heated affair despite her engagement to a young fisherman mandras who has gone off to join greek partisans love is complicated enough in wartime even when the lovers are on the same side and for corelli and pelagia it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances both personal and political as all around them atrocities mount former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches british author louis de bernires is well known for his forays into magical realism in such novels as the war of don emmanuel s nether parts seor vivo and the coca lord and the troublesome offspring of cardinal guzman here he keeps it to a minimum though certainly the secondary characters with whom he populates his island the drunken priest the strongman the fisherman who swims with dolphins would be at home in any of his wildly imaginative latin american fictions instead de bernires seems interested in dissecting the nature of history as he tells his ever darkening tale from many different perspectives captain corelli s mandolin works on many levels as a love story a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books