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Captain Corelli's Mandolin: Filmscript
by: Shawn Slovo, Louis De Bernieres

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099421962
ISBN: 0099421968
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 118
Publication Date: May 03, 2001
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 455647

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn't so bad--at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, who responds to a Nazi greeting of "Heil Hitler" with his own "Heil Puccini", and whose most precious possession is his mandolin. It isn't long before Corelli and Pelagia are involved in a heated affair--despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches.

British author Louis de Bernières is well known for his forays into magical realism in such novels as The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. Here he keeps it to a minimum, though certainly the secondary characters with whom he populates his island--the drunken priest, the strongman, the fisherman who swims with dolphins--would be at home in any of his wildly imaginative Latin American fictions. Instead, de Bernières seems interested in dissecting the nature of history as he tells his ever-darkening tale from many different perspectives. Captain Corelli's Mandolin works on many levels, as a love story, a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books.

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- A Great Wartime Love Story!
This book is a fantastic read that starts toward the end of World War 2 and covers generations.
The tale tells of a young Greek girl and an eccentric Italian Captain finding love during the Italian "occupation" of the Greek island of Cephallonia, although the Italian army hardly treats it as such due to disenchantment with having to fight for reasons & ideals they do not share with their leaders.
The author creates extremely tangible scenes, people & feelings that you're left feeling like you really knew the characters & places.
There are a few strange plot-holes but this in no way detracts from the overall story and I was actually quite gutted that it had to end!
A really good read that everyone will enjoy ... Read More:

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- masterpiece
I'll keep this short - plenty of the reviewers here are clearly budding authors!

Absolutely brilliant, should be on GCSE reading list. I havnt read as good a book in many years.

Dont be put off by the film which downgraded the book into a chick-flick.

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- A moving but flawed novel - well worth reading
There are lots of things to like about this book - I won't list them all because so many other people have, but the things that stand out are Captain Corelli's character (how could they have have cast depressive Nicholas Cage in the film? Roberto Benigni - of 'Life is Beautiful' - was the only possible choice), Pelagia's lovable shrewishness, the humour, unsentimentality, quirkiness and excellent war passages, conveying the horror and brutality of combat and the destructiveness of prejudice and hatred. Problems are De Berniere's self-indulgence, cleverness and tendency to take intrusive authorial stands on political situations, which would be better presented through the characters, leaving us to make up our own minds. The biggest failure of this ... Read More:

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- Epic
This, in my opinion,is one of the greatest stories I have ever read.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is set during WWII on the Greek island of Cephallonia. It deals with, among many other things, German and Italian invasion, the war as foght between Greece and Italy, communism, facism, homosexuality, honor, betrayal and above all else, Love.

The themes are so wide that I guarantee anyone will find smething they love about this book. I read it as a heartbreaking love story set against the backdrop of a tragic war. I passed it on to my boyfriend as one of my favourite books and he loved it as a political satire on Mussolini and WWII with a pesky love story thrown in.

I cry and laugh every time I read this book. It is truly ... Read More:

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- Breathtaking
Every so often you read a book that leaves you stunned; this is one of them. Please ,please don't let the first part put you off, persevere and you will be well rewarded with this magnificent tome. This book is all things; hilarious, sad, joyful, frightening and more, it is by far one of the best books I have ever read. If you saw the film first you are in for a treat for the book is 100 times better and has a different ending albeit sadder. If you go to kefelonia you will notice everyone reading this book, but you can curl up on the sofa and enjoy this just the same, make sure you've nothing urgent to do though because once started you will be unable to put it down. Enjoy!

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