The Kindness of Birds

The Kindness of Birds
Merlinda Bobis
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Trade Paperback
h226 x 154mm - 220pg
1 May 2021 AU
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9781925950304
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An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman' s resolve. Owls help a boy endure isolation. Cockatoos attend the laying of the dead. Always there are birds in these linked stories that pay homage to kindness amidst loss, grief, discord and displacement, from Australia to the Philippines, across cultures and species. When we encounter that snag in the breath, that shadow of a wing, we hope to remember kindness. Kindness cannot self-isolate. It moves both ways and all ways, like breath. Books by Merlinda BobisAccidents of Composition (2017)Locust Girl: A Lovesong (2015)Fish-Hair Woman (2012)The Solemn Lantern Maker (2008, 2009)Banana Heart Summer (2005, 2008)Pag-uli, Pag-uwi, Homecoming (2004)White Turtle (1999, 2013)Summer Was a Fast Train without Terminals (1998)Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon / Kantada ng Babing Mandirigma Daragang Magayon (1993, 1997)Ang Lipad ay Awit sa Apat na Hangin / Flight is Song on Four Wings (1990)Rituals (1990)
"Merlinda Bobis is an utterly distinctive voice in Australian letters. In our ironic and cynical times, here are stories of heartfelt feeling fulsome, tender and unabashed in which grief and hope are equally things with feathers. " Gail Jones, award-winning novelist "These stories are beyond beautiful and deeply moving, raw, tender, brimming with love and pain, death and life. Like lit diamonds, to borrow a phrase from Bobiss own exquisite language. I love how birds are everywhere in attendance, signalling ancestral wisdom, pointing to the strength of the human spirit and its deep ties with all of life. I love how each story feels like a tonic for our time, illuminated from within by so much grace and kindness, it gives hope and inspires awe. " Jennifer Ackerman, bestselling author of The Genius of Birds
Award-winning writer Merlinda Bobis has had four novels, six poetry books, and a collection of short stories published, and ten dramatic works performed. Her novel Locust Girl, A Lovesong received the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier' s Literary Awards and the Philippine National Book Award. Her poetry collection Accidents of Composition was Highly Commended for the ACT Book of the Year Award. For her, writing is homecoming: a return to roots, a retrieval through memory, and a reckoning with loss hopefully with care and grace. She lives and writes on Ngunnawal land (Canberra). merlindabobis. com. au Full listing of awards:Fish Hair Woman won Small Press Book of the Year Award, Won the Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel in a Foreign Language, Finalist in the Davitt Awards, Best Crime and Mystery Books by Australian WomenSummer Was a Fast Train without Terminals was Shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year AwardBanana Heart Summer: 2006 Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award), Philippines. Shortlist: 2006 Australian Literature Society Gold MedalWhite Turtle: 2001 Judges' Choice Award, Bumbershoot Book Fair, USA. 2000 Steele Rudd Award for the Best Published Collection of Australian Short Stories (Co-winner). 2000 Philippine National Book Award, Fiction (Co-winner)Accidents of Composition: Highly Commended, 2018 ACT Book of the Year
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781925950304
Published: 1 May 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Spinifex Press
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 226mm
Width: 154mm
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 220

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