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Paul Arimond is an army paramedic based in Afghanistan; it is 2003 and war rages around him. Yet Paul is more troubled by what he has left behind - a permanently brain damaged friend who was injured in a car crash in which Paul was driving. His conscription is in part an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt, but also motivated by a fascination with Ambrosius Arimond, his eighteenth-century ancestor, a traveller and ornithologist who developed a theory of the language of birds. Embroiled in the conflict of war and his own memories, Paul preoccupies himself with bird watching, keeping a diary of his sightings. The Language of Birds is punctuated by lyrical musings on their appearance and behaviour into which Norbert Scheuer deftly weaves passages on the travels of Ambrosius in the late eighteenth century and the stories of those Paul has left behind at home. The result is a sad, meditative novel that poignantly reflects the constant and inescapable presence of the past.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Language of Birds
• Author: Norbert Scheuer, Stephen Brown
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9781910376638
• ISBN: 1910376639
• ID: 14274387
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 193 × 136 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 2018

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