Pretty Birds

Pretty BirdsBy: Scott Simon The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic charactera young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough, funny teenager who has taught her parrot, Pretty Bird, to do a

rodents kept telling me I'd done things I had no memory of

and the “momentous catastrophe” of the Kennedy assassination

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guilt and confidence

Whether he’s rocking her to sleep

When she goes too far and breaks little brother Daniel’s tooth

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Then they weave a fantasy of dragons and kings to further engage their reluctant companion--and even encourage him to one day be the king of a paper kingdom

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

When another body is found

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貝多芬非常喜愛大自然，在維也納的時期，他每天下午都會去郊外散步，鳥鳴、溪水、樹等自然風光都常常觸發他寫下許多美妙的旋律，這首《第六號交響曲》就是在這個背景下完成。整首作品洋溢著返璞歸真和自然韻律，貝多芬還親自附上「田園」的標題，以及每個樂章都有簡短的文字說明，展現了他對大自然真摯的感情。