TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smaill, Anna,
TI  - Bird life: a novel 
SN  - 9781776921249
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New Zealand.
PB  - Te Herenga Waka University Press.
KW  - Grief
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Human-animal communication
KW  - Tokyo (Japan)
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
N2  - "Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet, changing the course of one another's lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael, a troubled genius who was able to channel his problems into music as a classical pianist - until he wasn't. In the seemingly empty, eerie apartment block where Dinah has been housed, she sees Michael everywhere, even as she feels his absence sharply."--
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