A Rentrée Novel Follows a Migrating Curlew Across Three Lives
“Le Septième Siffleur,” reviewed by Télérama as part of this year's rentrée littéraire, weaves together three characters bound by the same declining bird.
“Le Septième Siffleur” is a choral novel built around three characters who never meet but are each drawn into the path of the courlis cendré, a migratory curlew in decline: Fiona in Scotland, Willy in the Baie de Somme, and Hamza in Morocco, according to Télérama.
Télérama describes the book as a skillful ("habile") exploration of how humans relate to the living world, using the bird's migratory route to connect its three settings and characters. The paper frames it as a lesson in the cohabitation of species, delivered, in its words, "avec justesse."
The novel arrives as part of this year's rentrée littéraire, the autumn wave of new French-language fiction. No publisher, author name or release date was given in the material reviewed by Télérama.
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