A 10-year-old boy dreams of learning the language of birds. He admires their freedom, their nomadic life, their feathers, their song: all this for him are a sacred mystery that he desperately wants to discover. His home has nothing to do with the feathery, colorful kingdom he dreams of: a silent, almost absent mother and an oppressive father who looks down on his dream reasoning that “we humans are by nature savages and the birds want nothing of us.” A gothic coming-of-age tale based on a Ukrainian traditional song…
Winner of The Greek Children’s Book Cycle (Loti Androutsopoulou-Petrovits) Award, 2022
Nominated for Public YA Book Awards, 2022
KASTANIOTIS, 2021, 40 p.
