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In the brief golden years of King Edward VII’s reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent, with their ‘pals’ the Pitt boys on one side of the fence and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood innocence and adventure are destined to be followed by the apocalypse that will overwhelm their world as they come to adulthood.

For Rosie, the path ahead is full of challenges: torn between her love for two young men, her sense of duty and her will to live her life to the full, she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?

Louis de Bernières’ magnificent and moving novel follows the lives of an unforgettable cast of characters as the Edwardian age disintegrates into the Great War, and they strike out to seek what happiness can be salvaged from the ruins of the old world.

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. Based on de Bernières' recollections of the village he grew up in, is a funny and moving depiction of a charming vanished England.

En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, la llegada de los italianos trastoca la apacible vida de un remoto pueblo de la es la griega de Cefalonia. Pero aún más la de Pelagia -hija del médico- a causa del oficial italiano, el capitán Corelli, que va a alojarse en su casa. Surgirá el amor. Y también una tragedia que muy pronto interrumpirá la guerra de mentirijillas y la velada confraternización entre italianos y griegos.

Louis de Bernières ha conseguido un bello canto al amor y una afirmación de la vida y todo lo verdaderamente humano que tenemos los hombres y las mujeres. La ternura lírica y la sutil ironía con que está narrado nos envuelve desde la primera página.

Desde el momento de su primera publicación en 1994, La mandolina del capitán Corelli ha sido un éxito continuo con casi dos millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo.

Ahora se ha convertido en una inolvidable película protagonizada por Penélope Cruz y Nicholas Cage.