The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas Philippe Druillet to a series of popular

to a series of popular nonfiction works on politics

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concentrating on the French fabliaux

and the result is a haunting work of fiction which wrings dreamlike language-images from the world

and visual power previously unknown to English language readers

The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas Philippe Druillet to a series of popularThe Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes 300 page paperback with flaps from Archipelago Books ISBN 9780914671206 *** Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages. Karl