Timaş Yayınları Kimsenin Kuşları / Jean-Yves Jouannais / / 9786050850291

The war is over. But what about its aftermath?

1947, Bremen. American lawyer Jacob Michael Lenz is sent to Bremen on a special mission. In a devastated city, as he tries to learn the details of the case awaiting him, he is met with a strange greeting: “Welcome, Mr. Defender of the Birds!”

The birds in Hasbruch Forest continue to sing the Nazi marches they have been listening to for years. The regime has collapsed, and the marches have been banned, but the forest choir simply won’t stop singing. The Commission for the Removal of Nazi Remnants now faces an unusual problem:
What is to be done with these birds?

While Lenz tries to defend these creatures, who do not understand the meaning of words, he also wanders among the city’s ruins, forms bonds with strangers, and searches for words to express his own sorrow.

*Nobody's Birds* is a harrowing novel in which dark humor and melancholy intertwine, depicting the desire to forget and the urge to destroy with subtle irony.

“Shocking.”
– Le Figaro

“A lament that is heart-wrenching and unsettling, yet at the same time radiates a faint sense of tenderness into the dark sky.”
– Le Monde des Livres

“It takes incredible talent to create such an atmosphere in such a short book.”
– La Tribune Dimanche