{"id":45,"date":"2011-11-30T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-12-12T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T11:28:34","slug":"tail-of-the-blue-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/2011\/11\/30\/tail-of-the-blue-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Tail of the Blue Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nii Ayikwei Parkes&#8217;\u00a0d\u00e9but\u00a0novel, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, and hailed by the Financial Times as\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;a beautifully written fable&#8230; simple in form, but grappling with urgent issues.&#8217; The leading US early reviews magazine, Publishers Weekly, describes the novel as &#8220;a beguiling exploration of the power of storytelling&#8211;ancient stories and humble, modern and official.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><ul id='GTTabs_ul_45' class='GTTabs' style='display:none'>\n<li id='GTTabs_li_0_45' class='GTTabs_curr'><a  id=\"45_0\" onMouseOver=\"GTTabsShowLinks(' UK Editions'); return true;\"  onMouseOut=\"GTTabsShowLinks();\"  class='GTTabsLinks'> UK Editions<\/a><\/li>\n<li id='GTTabs_li_1_45' ><a  id=\"45_1\" onMouseOver=\"GTTabsShowLinks(' German Edition'); return true;\"  onMouseOut=\"GTTabsShowLinks();\"  class='GTTabsLinks'> German Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li id='GTTabs_li_2_45' ><a  id=\"45_2\" onMouseOver=\"GTTabsShowLinks(' US Edition'); return true;\"  onMouseOut=\"GTTabsShowLinks();\"  class='GTTabsLinks'> US Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li id='GTTabs_li_3_45' ><a  id=\"45_3\" onMouseOver=\"GTTabsShowLinks(' Dutch Edition'); return true;\"  onMouseOut=\"GTTabsShowLinks();\"  class='GTTabsLinks'> Dutch Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li id='GTTabs_li_4_45' ><a  id=\"45_4\" onMouseOver=\"GTTabsShowLinks(' Reviews'); return true;\"  onMouseOut=\"GTTabsShowLinks();\"  class='GTTabsLinks'> Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class='GTTabs_divs GTTabs_curr_div' id='GTTabs_0_45'>\n<span class='GTTabs_titles'><b> UK Editions<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-82\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"totbb_pb\" src=\"http:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-content\/uploads\/totbb_pb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"209\" \/>A beautiful meditation on the relationship between old and new worlds in developing Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains; possibly human, definitely &#8216;evil&#8217;; in a vanished man&#8217;s hut brings the modern world into the village in the form of Kayo; a young forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>But as events in the village become more and more incomprehensible, Kayo and his sidekick, Constable Garba, find that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task in hand. Strange boys wandering in the forest, ghostly music in the night and a flock of birds that come from far away to fill the desolate hut with discarded feathers take the newcomers into a world where, in the unknown, they discover a higher truth that leaves scientific explanations far behind.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em>\u00a0is a story of the mystical heart of Africa, of the clash and clasp between old and new worlds. Lyrically beautiful, at once uncanny and heart-warmingly human, this is a story that tells us that at the heart of modern man there remains the capacity to know the unknowable.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"whichbook\" href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/spHX9Z\">whichbook profile<br \/>\n<\/a>Buy UK Edition: \u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Buy on WHSmith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whsmith.co.uk\/CatalogAndSearch\/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=9780099526124\">WHSmith<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy on Foyles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foyles.co.uk\/Public\/Shop\/Detail.aspx?rowNum=1&amp;itemId=5040323&amp;quick=true&amp;searchBy=5&amp;term=Nii+Ayikwei+Parkes\">Foyles<\/a> \u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/totbbm\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy from Publisher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage-books.co.uk\/books\/0099526123\/nii-ayikwei-parkes\/tail-of-the-blue-bird\/\">Random House<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tail-Blue-Bird-ebook\/dp\/B004PGNGVA\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM\">Kindle Edition<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy via Kobo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whsmith.co.uk\/CatalogAndSearch\/eBooksProductDetails.aspx?productID=KB00104998460\">Kobo Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class='GTTabs_divs' id='GTTabs_1_45'>\n<span class='GTTabs_titles'><b> German Edition<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionsverlag.com\/cover\/3293004229.jpg\" alt=\"Cover\" width=\"120\" height=\"200\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionsverlag.com\/info\/sysimg\/addcart.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><a style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unionsverlag.com\/info\/title.asp?title_id=2569&amp;UCII_AddId=2569\">In Warenkorb\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Die Spur des Bienenfressers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sonokrom, ein Dorf im Hinterland Ghanas, hat sich seit Jahrhunderten kaum ver\u00e4ndert. Hier spricht man noch die Sprache des Waldes, trinkt aphrodisierenden Palmwein und wandelt mit den Geistern der Vorfahren. Doch eine verst\u00f6rende Entdeckung und das gleichzeitige Verschwinden eines Dorfbewohners st\u00f6ren die l\u00e4ndliche Ruhe.<\/p>\n<p>W\u00e4re nicht die Geliebte des Ministers in den Fall verwickelt, w\u00e4re er schon l\u00e4ngst ad acta gelegt worden. Der St\u00e4dter Kayo, Gerichtsmediziner und Anh\u00e4nger wissenschaftlicher Vernunft, wird mit der Aufkl\u00e4rung beauftragt \u2013 schwierig f\u00fcr jemanden, der nicht unbedingt an \u00dcbersinnliches glaubt und zugleich von seinem Vorgesetzten an der kurzen Leine gehalten wird. Als die Situation immer unfassbarer wird, m\u00fcssen Kayo und seine Ermittler einsehen, dass westliche Logik und politische B\u00fcrokratie ihre Grenzen haben.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class='GTTabs_divs' id='GTTabs_2_45'>\n<span class='GTTabs_titles'><b> US Edition<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72\" style=\"margin: 2px 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Tail of the Blue Bird (Kindle)\" src=\"http:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-content\/uploads\/front_us_graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"225\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Tail of the Blue Bird (US)\" src=\"http:\/\/niiparkes.com\/open\/wp-content\/uploads\/iss_front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"225\" \/>A woman spots a stunning blue-headed bird at the edge of a Ghanaian village follows it.<\/p>\n<p>Sonokrom is a place that has not changed for hundreds of years; the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and commune with the spirits of their ancestors. However, the woman&#8217;s intrusion and ensuing events lead to an invasion from Accra, the capital city, spearheaded by Kayo; a young forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>But as events in the village become more and more incomprehensible, Kayo and his sidekick, Constable Garba are drawn into a world where storytelling is more powerful than any scientific explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Tail of the Blue Bird is a poetic fable, at once unsettling and heart-warmingly funny, that exemplifies the futility of trying to categorise Africa, reminding us that the boundaries of truth have never been clear cut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy US Edition:<\/strong> <a title=\"buy on B&amp;N\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ustotbb\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> \u00bb\u00bb\u00a0<a title=\"buy on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/ustotb1\">Amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy on Tower.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tower.com\/tail-blue-bird-nii-ayikwei-parkes-paperback\/wapi\/117481625\">Tower<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb\u00bb <a title=\"Buy on Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/bbkin1\">Kindle Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class='GTTabs_divs' id='GTTabs_3_45'>\n<span class='GTTabs_titles'><b> Dutch Edition<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/beeld.boekboek.nl\/EQEQ\/p\/9789021438467\/vdi9789021438467.jpg\" alt=\"De blauwe vogel\" width=\"135\" height=\"213\" \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">De blauwe vogel<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>In een afgelegen dorp in Ghana wordt een bloederig bundeltje gevonden. De politie kan de oorsprong ervan niet achterhalen en roept de hulp in van forensisch expert Kayo Odamtten. Kayo\u2019s technische hulpmiddelen en wetenschappelijke logica brengen het onderzoek niet veel verder: het object is menselijk maar bevat geen botten en kan dus geen lijk zijn. Zou het gerucht dat er een vloek rust op een van de mannen van het dorp dan toch waar kunnen zijn? Of neemt de lokale bevolking het recht in eigen handen?<\/div>\n<p><em>De blauwe vogel<\/em>\u00a0zoekt de grenzen van de ratio op en toont hoe elk mens het in zich heeft het onkenbare te kennen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy from Dutch Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.querido.nl\/web\/Auteurs\/Boek-5\/9789021438467_De-blauwe-vogel.htm\">Querido<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class='GTTabs_divs' id='GTTabs_4_45'>\n<span class='GTTabs_titles'><b> Reviews<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">[<em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em>] is a delightful book that combines the basic tug of the whodunnit with the more elegant pleasures of the literary novel. Like the best detective stories, it has a questing hero, and a vivid sense of locale\u2026 Nii Ayikwei Parkes surely knows the effect the Ghanaian dialogue will have; he doesn\u2019t translate or explain, and this additional layer of mystery (for the average British reader) only adds to the strength of its lyricism and insight.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Jonathan Gibbs<\/strong>, <em>The Independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cA magical and engaging read, this novel refuses to be pigeonholed, layered with unexpected meanings, imagery and speech rhythms.\u201d <strong>\u2013 Margaret Busby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201c<em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em> is a book of surprises and bright sounds. What comes as no surprise is that the author is first and foremost a poet. No disrespect to other authorial disciplines, but poetry does impose certain restraints and encourages certain other discoveries: in particular the economy of words and rhythm of languages (each language has a distinct rhythm). Parkes uses these and more to subtle, almost subliminal, effect.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Lesley Mason<\/strong>, <em>TheBookBag.co.uk<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cAn African whodunit that alludes to the troublesome relationship that lies between the modernity and custom \u2026 Parkes has managed to write fabulously poetic and fresh prose that is both vernacular and contemporary.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Hisham Matar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>&#8220;A lovely detective story set in rural Ghana, Tail of the Blue Bird draws heavily from folklore and \u2014 though it follows a number of modern whodunit conventions \u2014 isn\u2019t afraid to leave some things shrouded in mystery. The book ends up being a gentle critique of story-telling in all its forms. As a tribal hunter tells the forensic pathologist, \u201cOn this earth, we have to choose the story we tell, because it affects us \u2013 it affects how we live.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Mythili Rao<\/strong> [from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mythiligrao.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/17\/books-of-2010-a-round-up\/\">http:\/\/mythiligrao.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/17\/books-of-2010-a-round-up\/<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cA nice, satisfying, and unusual mystery, <em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em> could readily have been expanded into something larger \u2013 but maybe it\u2019s the first in a series\u2026 Kayo is a sympathetic and interesting figure, and Parkes handles both the narrative voice of the locals \u2013 filled with local words and locutions \u2013 as well as the more straightforward omniscient-narrator descriptions very well. Worthwhile.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 M.A. Orthofer<\/strong>, <em>complete-review.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cIn this tale of crime, punishment, and forgiveness Parkes\u2019 landscapes are filled with magic, his characters speak with the wisdom of the ancients; he has used his poet\u2019s sensibility to recreate for us the oral tales, fables and wonders of a world before time, a world overtaken by time.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Helon Habila<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cOne of the most curious attractions of <em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em> is its privileging of Ghanaian languages over English\u2026 In terms of content, the book marks a moment in time when the postcolonial novel is leaving the stage; there is no \u2018apology\u2019 in this narrative, nor is there any great sense of problematic opposites. Things in this book are very much \u2018as they are\u2026\u2019 It would be easy to state that the demonstrative differences of rural versus metropolis, East versus West, and rational versus ethereal are the basic tenets of this book, but that would be doing this publication an injustice. <em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em> reminds us that, although events may be rationalized, explained as \u2018fate,\u2019 or accepted as the unknown doings of ethereal forces, the universal fact remains that as humans, we all pass through them, live and endure them; whatever our cultural or philosophical stance, we survive life\u2019s events to greater or lesser degrees.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Emma Dawson<\/strong>, <em>World Literature Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; a truly beautiful novel. Parkes\u2019 skill as a poet is quite apparent within the symmetry of his writing&#8230; He has inherited the vision of the Noveau Masters Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, and Syl Cheney-Coker too&#8230; the reader becomes totally immersed in the world that the writer creates.<strong>&#8220;<strong><br \/>\n\u2013 <\/strong>Rosetta Codling<\/strong>, The Examiner<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cA deeply complex novel; each character, every line entices the reader into feeling the beating heart of urban and rural Ghanaian lives&#8230; Parkes\u2019 steady, assured writing weaves a cosmological mystery that keeps you guessing to the very last page.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Courttia Newland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cRight at the outset, Parkes\u2019s novel sports the rhythms and devices of a tale told orally: \u2018We were at our somewhere when they came. First it was the young woman whose eyes could not rest. Hmm, since you are here let me tell you\u2026\u2019 (Linguistic innovation here is clearly indebted to the work of an older Ghanaian novelist, Kojo Laing, in novels such as Woman of the Aeroplanes&#8230;) As [the novel] draws to a close and as he [Yaw Poku, the hunter] highlights the male villagers\u2019 failure to take action in a case of systematic abuse, he asks: \u201cIs this not our problem as men? That we keep forgetting?\u201d And then: \u201cIf we didn\u2019t forget, there would be no mistakes and there would be no stories&#8230;\u201d [<em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em>] keeps delving into the questions: What are the occasions for narrative? What are its functions? This doesn\u2019t stop one getting swept along in the current. It\u2019s a great read.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Chris Dunton<\/strong>, <em>Sunday Independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cParkes\u2019 depiction of [Ghana in <em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em>] is an affectionate one\u2026 seeming opposites seen to work together rather than being irreconciliable. Besides the whodunnit aspect, the novel provides the pleasure of seeing an unfamiliar place brought to life, and Parkes eschews hand-holding by not explaining many of the local words he uses in his descriptions, injecting local colour while letting context do its job\u2026 in a tale that effectively draws readers into its unique world.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Stephanie Yap<\/strong>, <em>The Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cEven for a resolute empiricist with limited tolerance for the fey terrain of magical realism, [<em>Tail of the Blue Bird<\/em>] has a compelling draw; the supernatural is undercut by a psychological authenticity with strong Freudian resonance and a very human pull\u2026 Like all good detective novels of the gentler persuasion, it is a humane investigation of human failing\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Chloe Campbell<\/strong>, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>The ones below are German translation excerpts (using Google Translate) so they are only rough approximations in English<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original:<br \/>\n<em>\u201eEs hei\u00dft, alles ist nur das, was man sieht, aber es k\u00f6nnte genauso gut hei\u00dfen, alles ist nur das, was man nicht sieht.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dass dieser Grundsatz ebenso Geltung hat, vor allem fernab der Gro\u00dfstadt, muss Kayo im Laufe seiner Ermittlungen einsehen. Ist er nun noch desillusionierter als zuvor, hat man ihm seinen letzten Glauben, den an den Sieg der Vernunft, genommen? Nein, auch f\u00fcr Kayos Leben hat Nii Parkes eine Wendung parat, wie sie nur begnadete Geschichtenerz\u00e4hler ersinnen k\u00f6nnen.<\/em> \u2013 <em>Die Presse<\/em> (Austria)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Excerpt:<br \/>\n&#8220;[A] gifted storyteller.&#8221; \u2013 <em>Die Presse<\/em> (Belgium)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Original:<br \/>\n<em>Das Klischee von den zwei Welten, die aufeinanderprallen, hier muss es benutzt werden: Nii Parkes, in London und Accra lebend, hat einen so ungew\u00f6hnlichen wie spannenden und ja, auch warmherzigen Kriminalroman geschrieben: &#8220;Die Spur des Bienenfressers&#8221;.<\/em> \u2013 <em>Frankfurter Rundschau<\/em> (Germany)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Excerpt:<br \/>\n&#8220;an unusual\u2026 exciting and yes, warm-hearted mystery novel&#8221; \u2013 Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">Original:<br \/>\n<em>Nii Parkes spielt mit den Klischees von oralen \u00dcberlieferungen und im Westen angelernter Wissenschaftlichkeit. Meisterhaft jongliert er mit den oft strapazierten Mythen von Tradition und Moderne. In Gro\u00dfbritannien geboren, in Ghana aufgewachsen, lebt und schreibt der Autor gegenw\u00e4rtig in London. 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