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Shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2019 Shortlisted for the Mascara Literary Review's Avant Garde Awards 2020 The Flight of Birds is a novel in twelve stories, each of them compelled by an encounter between the human and animal worlds. The birds in these stories inhabit the same space as humans, but they are also apart, gliding above us. The Flight of Birds: A Novel in Twelve Stories explores what happens when the two worlds meet. Joshua Lobb's stories are at once intimate and expansive, grounded in an exquisite sense of place. The birds in these stories are variously free and wild, native and exotic, friendly and hostile. Humans see some of them as pets, some of them as pests, and some of them as food. Through a series of encounters between birds and humans, the book unfolds as a meditation on grief and loss, isolation and depression, and the momentary connections that sustain us through them. Underpinning these interactions is an awareness of climate change, of the violence we do to the living beings around us, and of the possibility of transformation. The Flight of Birds will change how you think about the planet and humanity's place in it. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The first story 'What he heard', introduces an unnamed man walking his dog in the bush. He is not well:
Lobb's setting suggests an intimacy that comes from long acquaintance with the bush:
This solitary man conquers his instinct to flee because he recognises this alarming sound as the wail of a child...
After this comes 'Six stories about birds, with seven questions'. A moment's carelessness leads to the escape of a pet budgie called Charlotte, and the stories are told to distract the bereft child. The father is a bit disconcerted to rediscover just how many fairy stories feature birds, both benign and malign.
It is not until the novel progresses that the third story 'Call and Response' seems to connect with the first one. Again the characters are unnamed, but the man shares the emotional fragility of the first man with the dog. In 'Flocking' — a heartbreaking story of the cruelties of school towards misfits, the background of the characters begins to be filled in.
To read the rest of my review pleased visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/09/18/the-flight-of-birds-by-joshua-lobb/ ( )