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When the child he is supposed to capture is unlike anything he has ever seen or been trained to expect Peter must decide whether to go back empty handed or to accept Jamie's pleas and take a chance on the fascinating yet unfathomable 'bird child'. A perilous journey awaits the unusual trio who must rush away from the outskirts of the feared town of Belua and elude its inhabitants across an ancient forest and up remote mountains, or risk being spotted and hunt by them. Will the journey help them discover more about the bird child? Will they be welcomed back into HomeVillage, where the true brothers expect a familiar captured child just like them? Will the bird child finish breaking the close bond that used to exist between Peter and Jamie? A literary and haunting novel which explores our captivation with charismatic leaders and our discomfort with difference. Borrowing the central characters from Hugo Simberg's cryptic painting The Wounded Angel and mobilising them in an allegorical tale inspired by the Venezuelan crisis and diaspora, this story of adventure, brotherhood and desperation asks: why do we follow our leaders and what are we willing to do to belong?

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Sherezade Garc a Rangel is a Venezuelan writer based in the UK. Her work which explores the intricacies of human relationships, the Venezuelan Diaspora and the complex reasons for this displacement has featured in Wasafiri, Transnational Literature, Gutter, and others. She is an award-winning podcaster, founder and producer of On The Hill podcast, producer of Everyday Peacebuilding Through the Arts podcast, and co-producer of On Silence. She is the prose editor of tr. review of translations. She holds an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches at the University of Lincoln.

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