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03100aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 E9291B683F1711E98434DF6697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190305011820 008 160920t20182018enka e b 000 f eng d 020 $a 1910376639 020 $a 9781910376638 035 $a (OCoLC)958781208 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d CDX $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d NUI $d OCL $d NDD $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 4 $a PT2680 E84 S6713 2018 100 1 $a Scheuer, Norbert, $d 1951- $e author. 240 10 $a Sprache der VoÌgel. $l English 245 14 $a The language of birds : $b a novel / $c Norbert Scheuer ; translated by Stephen Brown ; illustrations by Erasmus Scheuer. 264 1 $a London : $b Haus Publishing Ltd, $c 2018. 300 $a 179 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 500 $a "First published in German as Die Sprache der VoÌgel, © Verlag C.H.Beck oHG, MuÌnchen 2015"--Title page verso. 500 $a Sub-title from cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179). 546 $a Translated to English from the German. 520 $a "It is 2003, and Paul Arimond is serving as a paramedic in Afghanistan. The twenty-four-year-old has no illusions of becoming a hero. Rather, he has chosen the army to escape the tragedies of his past and his own feelings of guilt. As a result, he finds himself in the same land, now war-torn, where an ancestor of his, Ambrosius Arimond, a late eighteenth-century traveler and ornithologist, once explored and developed the theory of a universal language of birds. As visceral horrors and everyday banalities of the war threaten to engulf Paul, he, like his great-great-grandfather, finds his very own refuge in Afghanistan's natural world. In a diary filled with exquisite drawings of birds and ruminations on the life he left behind, Paul describes his experiences living with two comrades and his befriending of an Afghan man, Nassim, as well as his dreams of escaping the restrictive base camp and visiting the shores of a lake visible from the lookout tower. But when he finally reaches the lake one night, he finds himself in the midst of a chain of events that, with his increasingly fragile state of mind, has dramatic and ultimately heartbreaking consequences. A meditative novel that shows a new side to the conflict in Afghanistan, The Language of Birds takes a moving look at the all-too-human costs of war and questions what it truly means to fight for freedom."--Provided by publisher. 611 27 $a Afghan War (2001-) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01695175 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Bird watchers $z Afghanistan $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Germans $z Afghanistan $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Germany $x Medical personnel $x Medical personnel $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Brown, Stephen, $d 1973- $e translator. 700 1 $a Scheuer, Erasmus, $e illustrator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619010533.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502032114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E9291B683F1711E98434DF6697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search