The Language of Birds
Paul Arimond is an army paramedic based in Afghanistan; it is 2003 and war rages around him. Yet Paul is more troubled by what he has left behind - a permanently brain damaged friend who was injured in a car crash in which Paul was driving. His conscription is in part an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt, but also motivated by a fascination with Ambrosius Arimond, his eighteenth-century ancestor, a traveller and ornithologist who developed a theory of the language of birds. Embroiled in the conflict of war and his own memories, Paul preoccupies himself with bird watching, keeping a diary of his sightings. The Language of Birds is punctu…
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Weitere Autoren: Brown, Stephen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-910376-63-8
- EAN: 9781910376638
- Produktnummer: 20694943
- Verlag: Haus Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 247 g
- Gewicht: 247
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Norbert Scheuer's 2009 novel Überm Rauschen was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and was chosen as Cologne's Book of the Year for 2010.
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