
- 136 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Migratory Birds
About this book
Winner of the PEN Translation Prize
"Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home."â The New Yorker
"A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home."â Publishers Weekly
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Migratory Birds
- II. Cappadocia
- III. Cassandra
- IV. Normandy
- V. The Other Lost Boys and Girls
- VI. Ăzdamarâs Tongue
- VII. Koblenz
- VIII. Berlin
- IX. Mimesis in VHS
- X. TrĂźmmerfrauen
- XI. Blueprint for a House