Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (French Trilogy Book 2)

{ Sept 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover image, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 503 pages Published 1993 Vintage International (1997) 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. A novel of overwhelming emotional power, "Birdsong" is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front. His love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, he experiences the unprecedented horrors of that conflict - from which neither he nor any reader of this book can emerge unchanged. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" ( The New Yorker ), 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, c rafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love. Rootless And Heartbroken Stephen Wraysford Joins The Army At The Outbreak Of World War I. He And His Men Are Given The Assignment To Tunnel Under The German Lines And Set Off Bombs. The Comaraderie, Love, And Loyalty Of The Soldiers Contrasts With The Horrors Of The Underground, Air, And Trench Warfare. Sebastian Faulks. Originally Published: London : Hutchinson, 1993. A tale of love and war early this century. The protagonists are Stephen Wraysford, a British businessman, and Isabelle Azaire, a married Frenchwoman. They meet in 1910, she elopes with him, gives birth to his child, then remorse sends her back to her husband. But World War I will bring them together when he returns to France as an officer in the British army The boulevard du Cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens.