{"title": "Migratory Birds", "covers": [10507228], "key": "/works/OL23025012W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL8743435A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7904950A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Literature, collections", "Literature, history and criticism", "Voyages and travels"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"In her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit. Blending criticism, reportage, and a travel writing all her own, Oliver presents a brilliant collection of essays that asks us what it means to leave the familiar behind and make the unfamiliar our own.\" --\n\nA sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli's \"Sidewalks.\""}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-11-07T22:14:07.201336"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-14T21:11:37.330959"}}