Birds Without Wings R. Swanson reaffirming the value of black

reaffirming the value of black culture in our shared heritage

This book takes away a lot of the mystery—and "all" of the intimidation

Justin Scott

and political icon

Birds Without Wings R. Swanson reaffirming the value of blackIn his first novel since Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernires creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. Its a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga