The Village of the Black Parrot

About this book

High walls enclose a village governed by cruelty and watched by an enormous black parrot. A curse has hardened its people's hearts, yet a girl is born carrying an instinct for mercy that the surrounding order cannot accept. Omnia Al-Tahawy builds a fantasy around the contest between compassion and hatred, asking whether a single humane choice can weaken despair and uncover the secret that sustains the village's captivity.