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A sense of lurking horror that will leave you troubled for weeks --The Guardian Books of the Year 2010, Sam Jordison
The lavish descriptions of panoramas and the experience of pushing beyond all endurance make for a lyrical and occasionally sinister odyssey second only to making one's own foray into the wilderness. --Publishers Weekly
Birdbrain is a graphic examination of two very different people and a harrowing allegory of humankind's problematic relationship with the planet. --Eric Brown, The Guardian
Birdbrain is a graphic examination of two very different people and a harrowing allegory of humankind's problematic relationship with the planet. --Eric Brown, The Guardian
The lavish descriptions of panoramas and the experience of pushing beyond all endurance make for a lyrical and occasionally sinister odyssey second only to making one's own foray into the wilderness. --Publishers Weekly
Birdbrain is a graphic examination of two very different people and a harrowing allegory of humankind's problematic relationship with the planet. --Eric Brown, The Guardian
Birdbrain is a graphic examination of two very different people and a harrowing allegory of humankind's problematic relationship with the planet. --Eric Brown, The Guardian
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From the author of Not Before Sundown, this novel is a skilful portrait of the unquenchable desire of Westerners for the pure and the primitive. A young Finnish couple set off for the hiking trip of a lifetime in New Zealand and Australia with Conrad's Heart of Darkness as reading material. The trip gradually turns into a tortuous thriller with belongings disappearing and, even more mysteriously, reappearing. Birdbrain reveals the dark side of the explorer's desire: the insatiable need to control, to invade and leave one's mark on the landscape. But what happens when nature starts to fight back?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having hiked in the same areas as the protagonists of this book I was keen to learn how the issues of survival in untamed nature, and the conflict of having sophisticated hiking gear versus "being one with nature" were handled. The obsessions of some hikers to be the first to do something are cruelly shattered time and again. And nature in many of its manifestations always has the last laugh. The book flows excellently and the ending is truly brilliant. A thought-provoking read about nature and human nature.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Another great book to come from Finland. It tackles parenthood's burdens quietly but is in no way a 'woman's' book.
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