In 1916, now an officer, he commands a brigade of soldiers in a bizarre campaign waged beneath German lines. On this nightmarish battlefield, Stephen will become both death's agent and its dispassionate witness. And he will be reunited with the woman whose memory he tried so desperately to erase.
Birdsong is at once an erotic love story and a powerful evocation of the carnage of war.
A deeply compassionate, utterly thrilling work by a master of the form. Author Biography Sebastian Faulks worked as a journalist for fourteen years before taking up writing full-time in 1991. In 1995, he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards for Birdsong , his fourth novel and his second, following A Fool's Alphabet , to be published in the United States. He lives in London with his wife and two children. Topics to Consider Stephen has visions of death within the lush beauty of pre-war Picardy.