num_pages: 128
description: Henry and Paul are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: young guys adrift in the big city, relationships gone wrong, broken hearts. Henry is running away from a triangle of friendship gone sour; Paul is running away too, but as the night unfolds and the train speeds north across the German landscape, his story turns ominous. What he finally reveals to his unsuspecting traveling companion goes into the darkest sphere of human behavior. Shocking and raw, The Bird is a Raven is the work of a writer at the beginning of a stellar career.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Bird is a Raven
titlecomplete: The Bird is a Raven
genres: Fiction, Dark, German Literature, Young Adult, Contemporary, Germany, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 430
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Peter Constantine
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf