Reception
Birdsong has been said to be Sebastian Faulks' best work of fiction- it received an 'also mentioned' credit in The Observer's 2005 poll of critics and writers to find the Best British book of the last 25 years (1980–2005). Birdsong has been one of the most consistently selling books of the last decade, continuously in the top 5,000 sales figures.
His literary retelling of the events and attitudes towards the Battle of the Somme and life in the trenches is highly acclaimed and is often likened to the work of writers such as Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway, providing a modern contrast to World War I literature.
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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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