{"subjects": ["Love stories", "World War, 1914-1918", "Fiction", "World war, 1914-1918, fiction", "Fiction, war & military", "Fiction, historical, general", "Fiction, romance, historical", "France, fiction", "Literature", "Historical Fiction", "Fiction, historical"], "key": "/works/OL80181W", "title": "Birdsong", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL28952A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [418138, 72724, 907915, 6929025, 14159783, 3091572, 6874248, 8898835, 11145873], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale.Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself."}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T01:31:49.033163"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-10T22:23:30.750873"}}