Name: The Country of the Bird (en Inglés)
SKU: 67309569
Price: 365.33 MXN
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Author: Lilith Street
ISBN: 9781105688225

portada The Country of the Bird (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Lulu.com

Autor

Lilith Street

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x0.5 cm

ISBN13

9781105688225

The Country of the Bird (en Inglés)

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A coming-of-age tale in a quiet, cosmological poetic landscape of ancient China, The Country of the Bird moves through birds, rivers, and silence, asking what it costs to see clearly.

During the late Shang Dynasty, elephants were not limited to the south but inhabited the warmer, wetter forests of the Yellow River valley. Ivory and bronze represented power, wealth, and luxury in contrast to the simple cotton fabric and dulled tools of rice paddy cultivators. To the south, the Yangtze River basin provided an agricultural wetland for agrarian households. In this pre-Buddhist society there was stillness before philosophy, attention before teaching, and consequence before theology.

Here a young poet began her calling by shaping herself after the lotus, and through trips to the river, with moments of resonance and light that echoed natural cycles of emergence and loss. In this sonoric, moving tale, Lilith Street blends historical fiction with poetry, told from the perspective of a Chinese girl. From the elegant movements of the crane to a chrysanthemum snapped clean, traded for a poem, the creatures and flora of ancient China come to life against a transcendental landscape. Under the speaker's Oracle Bone Script pen, the result is a quiet, haunting zen-aesthetic meditation on attention, innocence, and the cost of seeing.