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Louis de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994) is the sweeping Italian-Greek love story set on the island of Cephalonia during the Italian and German occupation of World War II — Captain Antonio Corelli, an Italian officer who loves opera and plays the mandolin, and Pelagia, the daughter of the local doctor. A bestseller in Britain and internationally, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and adapted into the 2001 film with Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz. The novel is part love story, part war novel, part meditation on memory, music, and what the war did to Greece.
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Louis de Bernières·1994·Start here — the complete standalone novel. De Bernières's other novels are set in Latin America and Britain and are not sequels.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin — Frequently Asked Questions
Is Captain Corelli's Mandolin a standalone novel?
Yes. Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a complete standalone novel with no sequels or prequels. De Bernières set his earlier trilogy in Latin America (The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman) and his later fiction in Britain, but none are continuations of Captain Corelli.
What should I read next after Captain Corelli's Mandolin?
Readers continue with similar sweeping WWII Mediterranean love stories: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Atonement by Ian McEwan, or Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky. For more Mediterranean historical fiction, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons are popular companions.
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