Goodbye Bird

For a twenty-eight-year-old young man who returned from the army several years ago but has yet to reacclimatize to ordinary life every step gesture word and vision is a revelation which takes him back to the beginning to a time when reality had lost its shape and turned into a new and imperceptible world. In his imagination he embodies a number of different characters he feels the presence of his girlfriend again and remembers friends from his childhood and from the army who are now gone. This is a book of questions and the answers to these questions are to be found by the reader. The novel is like a puzzle which needs to be pieced together and the picture is not complete until the last piece is in place until the last word of the book has been read.Translated from the Armenian by Nairi Hakhverdi.