Migratory Birds
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: Jun 08, 2021
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781945492525
Description: "In her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit. Blending criticism, reportage, and a travel writing all her own, Oliver presents a brilliant collection of essays that asks us what it means to leave the familiar behind and make the unfamiliar our own." --

A sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli's "Sidewalks."
Notes: Source title: Migratory Birds (Undelivered Lectures)