SONGBIRDS

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<p>ONIX Description<br><br>281<br><b>'Will break your heart and open your eyes' Heather Morris, author of <i>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</i></b><br><br><b>'I've never read anything quite like <i>Songbirds</i> - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of <i>Small Great Things</i></b><br><br><b>She walks unseen through our world.<br> Cares for our children, cleans our homes.<br> She has a story to tell. <br> Will you listen?</b><br><br>Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra's daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone.<br><br>Nisha's lover, Yiannis, is a poacher, hunting the tiny songbirds on their way to Africa each winter. His dreams of a new life, and of marrying Nisha, are shattered when she vanishes.<br><br>No one cares about the disappearance of a domestic worker, except Petra and Yiannis. As they set out to search for her, they realise how little they know about Nisha. What they uncover will change them all. <br><br><b>Praise for Christy Lefteri:</b><br><br>'This<b> thought-provoking</b> novel of love loss and redemption is thoroughly<b> sublime</b>.' Caroline Montague<br><br>'Lefteri is an <b>astonishing</b> weaver of stories.' Daljit Nagra <br><br>' . . . <b>broke my heart</b> and kept me turning the pages of her <b>gorgeous nove</b>l well into the night.' Alka Joshi, NYT-bestselling author of <i>The Henna Artist</i> and <i>The Secret Keeper of Jaipur</i><br><br>'Christy Lefteri has crafted a <b>beautiful novel</b>, intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant.' Benjamin Zephaniah on <i>The Beekeeper of Aleppo</i><br><br><i>' . . .</i> it's <b>impossible not to be moved</b> by Lefteri's plea for humanity and perhaps inspired too.' <i>Observer</i>, on <i>The Beekeeper of Aleppo</i><br><br>'Courageous, proactive, haunting.' Heather Morris, on <i>The Beekeeper of Aleppo</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781786580825

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

231 x 149 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

BONNIER ZAFFRE EXPORT