Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks dystopian natural selection is neither rare

natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour

now is your chance

New Statesman

according to anti-war protesters in the 1960s and popular culture from Apocalypse Now to the punk band Napalm Death and British street artist Banksy

and superbly characterised narrative

Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks dystopian natural selection is neither rareSet 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. Over the course of the novel he suffers 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.