Mariana Oliver
Migratory Birds
Migratory Birds
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Mariana Oliver's debut collection of essays explores migration, language, memory, pain, desire, and the body, blending criticism, reportage, and travel writing. She leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of Berlin, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2021
Publisher: Transit Books
Winner of the PEN Translation Prize, Mariana Oliver's collection of essays explores themes of memory, war, movement, and home, taking readers on a thoughtful and poetic journey through migration, language, and the complexities of home.
Moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories, Oliver examines the complexities of migration, language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, she leads readers through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the fractured history of Berlin, 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 thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home, Mariana Oliver's debut collection of essays explores the complexities of migration, language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads readers through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the fractured history of Berlin, 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.
Weight: 144g
Dimension: 127 x 177 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781945492525
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