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The result here is a complementary structure addressing the aesthetic and political concepts inherent in Feleksan Onar’s art. Contiguity and fragility are the core of this project and provides the form for this book. Newly commissioned essays initiate sections that engage particular aspects of Onar’s work. Renowned author Louis de Berniéres contributes a short story; Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber, Mariam Rosser-Owen and Stefanie Bach propose a reading of Perched through the exhibitions in the Pergamon Museum, the Victoria\u0026amp; Albert Museum and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; and Nadania Idriss questions how is art supposed to foster a culture of peace and muses on being perched.    Producing glass art, to use Onar’s own words, “not only expresses my past and present, but also my anxieties and expectations for future. Through glass, I speak, breathe and live.” This is the story of birds standing together in different places with their various colors and holding a vital crisis in their silence, breath and life.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309093826933,"sku":"9781911300984","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911300984_1377c36d-3255-4c85-9208-443220d94d11.jpg?v=1786029382"},{"product_id":"9781915022905","title":"Imagining Alexandria","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309383659893,"sku":"9781915022905","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781915022905.jpg?v=1786035006"},{"product_id":"smelling-of-rooks","title":"Smelling of Rooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe People’s Book Prize 2027 FinalistFrom the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin comes a candid, comic and irresistibly companionable portrait of a writer’s life in rural Norfolk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from Louis de Bernières’s hugely popular Facebook posts written between 2015 and 2024, Smelling of Rooks gathers a decade of reflections, anecdotes and observations on everything from music, cats and motorcycles to politics, parenting and the perils of social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about the texture of ordinary days, told with the warmth, eccentricity and mischief that have made de Bernières one of Britain’s most beloved storytellers. Set against the rolling fields and modest peaks of what he calls the ‘Norfolk Alps’, this accidental memoir captures a writer at ease with his life, his readers and his absurdities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are riffs on the pleasures of cooking and DIY, portraits of friends and neighbours, the escapades of his children, and the unpredictable joys of country living. At once funny, tender and defiantly unfiltered, Smelling of Rooks shows Louis de Bernières as he really is – reflective, unpretentious and gloriously human. A celebration of family, friendship and the small wonders of daily life, it is a book to dip into, laugh with, and treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507620520309,"sku":"9781784634056","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784634056.jpg?v=1787042630"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-louis-de-bernieres.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}