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The Conference Of the Birds
[Paperback - 2013]
peter sis
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Category: Art
Sub-category: Individual Artists
Additional Category: Poetry - Philosophy
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780143124245 | Pages: 160
Shipping Weight: .459 | Dimensions: 7 x .48 x 10 inches

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An award-winning author and illustrator offers a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the beloved Sufi poem

Celebrated children’s book creator Peter Sis presents his first book for adults with The Conference of the Birds—a lyrical and richly illustrated story of love, faith, and the beauty of the human journey. Sis’s deeply felt version of the classic twelfth-century Persian epic poem tells the story of a flock of birds in search of the true king, Simorgh, who lives on the mountain of Kaf. Drawn from all species, the flock travels through the seven valleys: quest, love, understanding, detachment, unity, amazement, and death. The birds that endure reach the mountain to learn a profound lesson: that Simorgh the king is, in fact, each of them and all of them.

About the Author

PETER SÍS is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, filmmaker, painter and author. Born in 1949 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in Prague. He studied painting and filmmaking at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. His animated work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He came to America in 1982, and now lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his family. Peter Sís is the first children's book artist to be named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2012 he won The Hans Christian Andersen Award.His many distinguished books includeStarry Messenger: Galileo Galilei,Tibet: Through the Red Box,Madlenka,Rainbow Rhino,The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin,The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, andThe Conference of the Birds.

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