num_pages: 128
description: There is an ancient Turkish tradition that promises the person who frees a small bird a place in paradise. Three boys set up a business of catching birds to enable people to free them, but city people are now sceptical and tragedy lies in wait for the boys. The author also wrote "Memed, My Hawk".
language: English
title: The Birds Have Also Gone
titlecomplete: The Birds Have Also Gone
genres: Fiction, Turkish, 20th Century, Classics, Turkish Literature, Novella, Roman, Travel, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 1577
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)