From the prize-winning author of \;The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes \;a stunning novel about the disap pearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find the ir voices.
\nYiannis is a poacher\, trapping the tiny protected song birds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the black market. He dreams of finding a new way of li fe\, and of marrying Nisha\, who works on the island as a nanny and maid-- having left her native Sri Lanka to try to earn enough to support her daug hter\, left behind and raised by relatives.
\nBut Nisha has vanished \; one evening\, she steps out on a mysterious errand and doesn't return. The police write off her disappearance as just another runaway domestic wo rker\, so her employer\, Petra\, undertakes the investigation.
\nPet ra's unravelling of Nisha's last days in Cyprus lead her to Nisha's friend s--other maids in the neighborhood--and to the darker side of a migrant's life\, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable\, captive\, and wors e.
\nBased on the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyp rus\, Christy Lefteri has crafted a poignant\, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the headlines. With infinite tenderness and s kill\, \;Songbirds \;offers a triumphant story of the fig ht for truth and justice\, and of women reclaiming their lost voices.
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