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Book Review of Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

Birdsong:  A Novel of Love and War
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Intensely romantic and stunningly realistic novel and international bestseller. Spans 3 generations, spanning WWI to present. As young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world in the trenches. This book is about the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love. As tragic as A Farewell to Arms, as sensual as The English Patient.