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Fra den prisvindende forfatter til Biavleren fra Aleppo kommer nu Sangfugle. En smuk roman om en srilankansk tjenestepige, der forsvinder, og om hvordan de mest udsatte mennesker finder deres egne stemmer. Nisha har krydset verdenshavene for at give sit barn en fremtid. Om dagen passer hun Petras datter, om natten er hun mor for sin egen lille pige gennem en tablets lysende skærm. Nishas elsker, Jiannis, er krybskytte, og han jager de små sangfugle under deres vintertræk til Afrika. Hans drømme om et nyt liv, om at gifte sig med Nisha, bliver knust, da hun forsvinder.

Heico is an ornithologist fighting a losing battle to protect the birds in his beachside suburb. When a journalist asks for comment on a planned development, Heico exaggerates his reports on how many migratory birds use the site. Soon it is revealed that the proposed building is a mosque, and he finds himself embroiled in community resistance to the project. Still, he refuses to back down. Nahla, Heico’s house cleaner, is trying to find her place in a new country and a new marriage.

While growing up, Joe Farroni almost never saw his Uncle Rocco, and when Joe asked his parents about the man, they’d kept their lips zipped. Only when Joe is an adult - a writer struggling with a mortgage and two kids - does he discover his uncle’s identity as the sneakiest, slipperiest, most successful conman to ever grace the streets of New York City. Now Rocco has passed away, and left it to Joe, his only heir, to write the story of his master schemes.