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Novel Tells of a Greek Village under Axis Occupation

By Alan Cheuse
Published September 6, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT
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Alan Cheuse reviews Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres. Cheuse says it's a story with numerous richly portrayed characters living in an Anatolian coastal village in the early 1900s.

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