Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 436. Illustrated wraps by Graham Bence.

Signed by Author to title page. Promotional Copy sticker to rear. Spine lean, else Near Fine.

Winner of the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. Listed at no. 19 on the BBC's The Big Read in 2003. Named one of Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists" in 1993. Author's celebrated fourth book of an ill-fated love triangle set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Axis Occupation. Basis for the 2001 film adaptation directed by John Madden, starring Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz, and John Hurt. "An extraordinary novel." –Daily Mirror