You are bidding on a wonderful love story set in 1941, war torn Greece. This book is second-hand with a few scuff-marks. Was a plaesure to read and I think the lucky winner will think so too.

The following text is on the back of he book:

Beginning in 1940, as Italy prepares to attack Greece and enter the Second World War on the side of the Germans, Captain Corelli's Mandolin tells the story of Pelgia, the beautiful young daughter of Dr Iannis. Engaged to Mandras, a handsome young fisherman, Pelagia is left alone when war intervenes and Mandras enlists. Following the invasion of the island by the Italians, Captain Antonio Corelli, a young and far from fanatical artillery captain with a passion for music, is billeted with Pelagia and her father. As the Italian occupiers and Greek islanders begin to come to terms with each other, so Pelagia's love for Mandras falters and her affection for the charming and civilised Corelli grows. As an increasingly bestial war comes closer and closer, Corelli and Pelagia find themselves united by their love but divided by their nationality and by the savagery of war.

'Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through
Dickens and Evelyn Waugh…he has only to look into his world, one senses,
for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste'
Evening Standard

'An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothness
between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history…
it's lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest'
Observer

'A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet. He deals with death and love and
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