Sebastian Faulks | Birdsong
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is a sweeping novel of love, war, memory and survival. In 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens in northern France and falls passionately in love with Isabelle Azaire, the unhappily married woman of the house in which he is staying. Their intense and ultimately painful affair leaves an indelible mark on Stephen, one he carries with him when Europe descends into the catastrophe of the First World War.
Years later, Stephen finds himself amid the unimaginable horrors of the Western Front, where men fight not only in the trenches but deep beneath enemy lines. Faulks sets the intimacy of love against the brutality of industrial warfare, while a later generation attempts to uncover and understand what happened to those who endured it. Moving between private passion and collective tragedy, Birdsong is an emotionally powerful exploration of love, loss, courage and remembrance – and of the fragile threads that connect one generation to another.
- • Publisher: Vintage
• Place of issue: London, United Kingdom
• Language: English
• Cover: Soft (Paperback)
• Year of publication: 1994
• Number of pages: 528
• Dimensions: approximately 198 × 129 × 33 mm
• Weight: approximately 357–371 g
• Genre: Historical Novel, Military Literature, Literary Prose, Romance






