num_pages: 503
description: Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
language: English
title: Birdsong
titlecomplete: Birdsong
characters: Elizabeth Benson, Stephen Wraysford, Isabelle Azaire
genres: Fiction, Classics, France, World War I, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 77187
places: France, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza
publisher: Vintage