The Painted Bird
Author: Jerzy Kosiński
Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski’s first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness of its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after Wor….Read More
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