Georgia Straight, Canada
Sept 23 2004
Arts Choices
Talking Turkey
Perhaps we’ve been chewing on the Armenian massacre long enough that
we can finally struggle to make some kind of response. Attempts are
under way. Atom Egoyan sallied forth with Ararat in 2002, Diamanda
Galás is finally touring her Defixiones, Will and Testament, and
Louis de Bernières–he of a little thing called Captain Corelli’s
Mandolin–is latest to testify. De Bernières’s massive–and massively
complicated–new novel, Birds Without Wings (Knopf Canada, $36.95),
is set in and around the oft-conquered region during the first
decades of the 20th century. Catch de Bernières in a Vancouver
International Writers Festival reading Monday (September 27) at 7
p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street).