Louis de Bernieres - The garden where you sit Has never a need of f

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

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de Bernières, Louis. Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Secker & Warburg, 1994.

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About the Author

Louis de Bernieres

Born: December 8, 1954
Nationality: English
Profession: Novelist

Biography

Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international best-seller.

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