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Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. [1] It is Faulks's fourth novel.
Sep 27, 1993 · First published in 1994, Birdsong is a WWI era novel that spans 1910-1979 and focuses on main protagonist, Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman that begins a sordid affair with a French businessmen's wife, Madame Azaire.
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Birdsong, novel by Sebastian Faulks, published in 1993. Birdsong is a story of love and war. A mixture of fact and fiction, Faulks’s fourth novel was born of the fear that the First World War was passing out of collective consciousness. At one level, it upholds the promise “We Shall Remember Them,” and Faulks’s fictional soldiers give ...
- Anne Rowe
Birdsong is Faulks’s fourth novel and the second in his French trilogy, and has become a classic of modern English literature. In July 2020, Birdsong was released online in a specially made virtual production.
Jun 2, 1997 · The book's hero, a 20-year-old Englishman named Stephen Wraysford, finds his true love on a trip to Amiens in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married, the wife of a wealthy textile baron. Wrayford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according to plan.
A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle.
- Sebastian Faulks
In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance.
