The Mandolin of Lieutenant Colleyrie

Author: (English) Louis de Bernières
Translator: Liu Guozhi, Hu Xuefei
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The author Louis de Bernières is renowned in the UK. The novel received widespread acclaim upon publication, winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide, and staying on the bestseller list for 240 consecutive weeks. Moreover, the Hollywood adaptation of the novel into a film with the same title earned excellent reviews and box office success. The book, written in a grand epic style, tells a heart-stirring story of love and war: During World War II, Italian Colleoni, as an officer of the occupying forces, was stationed in Greece and fell in love with the daughter of a local doctor, but she was engaged to a member of a resistance movement. In this love entanglement intertwined with political factors, the protagonist is destined to endure great hardships and difficult choices. Their fates, accompanied by the melancholic yet dramatic mandolin music skillfully played by Colleoni, are filled with sorrow and ups and downs, sweetness and despair.