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World Without Birds
3 March 2026
Not yet released
Birds Without Wings is a novel by Louis de Bernières, written in 2004. Narrated by various characters and set in the early 20th century in the fictional village of Eskibahçe in southwestern Anatolia, the novel portrays a small, mixed community whose inhabitants are primarily Christian Greeks and Muslim Turks. The villagers speak and sometimes write, combinations of Turkish and Greek, reflecting the region’s linguistic and cultural diversity.