"A sweet, sad, sunny meditation on birds and music and the gentle approach of death."
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John Rockwell, former New York Times arts critic and editor and founding director of Lincoln Center Festival
“It is one of the novel’s pleasures that its story takes place against pivotal moments of the half-mythic history of northern Africa and the Middle East … Another reliable source of delight is Majdalani’s writing, constantly alive and entrancing in Edward Gauvin’s translation.”
World Literature Today