The Bird Tattoo: A Novel Children's City Life Books As tender as it is

As tender as it is unflinching

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The Bird Tattoo: A Novel Children's City Life Books As tender as it isA powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award nominated author of The Beekeeper. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows