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One italian officer, captain corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual coexistence with the greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. The hero is antonio corelli, a mandolinplaying captain of the occupying italian army, the heroine is pelagia iannis, daughter of a local doctor, who is engaged to a greek resistance leader, corellis enemy. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Captain corellis mandolin radio 4 reading audiobook. Feb 10, 2014 being this one of my favorite war time love stories, and the available trailers being so poor in image sharpness and colors, i have edited my own trailer in1. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read corellis mandolin. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer, with his novel captain corellis mandolin winning the commonwealth writers prize for best novel in 1994.
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