The Conference of the Birds
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Presents an illustrated tale of thirty birds and their perilous journey through the seven valleys of Quest, Love, Understanding, Detachment, Unity, Amazement, and Death in a quest to find their true king, the Simorgh.
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Beautiful illustrations, and a beautifully produced physical book (the edition I read is hardcover with textured paper) made this a delight to read. The colors and art were genuinely entrancing. As for the words, I suspect the adaptation and simplification of the original long poem leaves much to be desired. What is left worked well enough as an accompaniment (almost captions) to the great art, but felt philosophically trite.
