Birdbrain (Paperback)
| Author: Johanna/ Hackston Sinisalo | Translator: David Hackston |
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Product Details:
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
ISBN-10: 0720613434
ISBN-13: 9780720613438
Sku: 219856817
Publish Date: 4/1/2011
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
217
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| The story of a young Finnish couple who have embarked on the hiking trip of a lifetime, with "Heart of Darkness" as their only reading matter. Conrad''s dark odyssey turns out to be a prescient choice as their trip turns into a tortuous thriller, with belongings disappearing, and they soon find themselves at the mercy of untamed nature, seemingly directed by the local kakapo--a highly intelligent parrot threatened with extinction. |
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From the Publisher:
From the author of Not Before Sundown, this novel is a skilful portrait of the unquenchable desire of Westerners for the pure and the primitive. A young Finnish couple go on the hiking trip of a lifetime in Australasia with Heart of Darkness as reading material. The trip gradually turns into a tortuous thriller with belongings disappearing and, even more mysteriously, reappearing. The travellers come to be at the mercy of untamed nature. Birdbrain reveals the dark side of the explorer's desire: the insatiable need to control, to invade and leave one's mark on the landscape. But what happens when nature starts to fight back? |
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"[T]he lavish descriptions of panoramas and the experience of pushing beyond all endurance make for a lyrical and occasionally sinister odyssey second only to making one's own foray into the wilderness."
02/14/2011
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