num_pages: 483
description: Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
language: English
title: Birdsong
titlecomplete: Birdsong
characters: Elizabeth Benson, Isabelle Azaire, Stephen Wraysford
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, World War I, Novels, Literature, Classics, War, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 77181
places: London, England, France
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza
publisher: Vintage International