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 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.
language: English
title: The Bird Is a Raven
titlecomplete: The Bird Is a Raven
genres: Germany, Dark, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, German Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 430
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Peter Constantine
publisher: Vintage