| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character???a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough, funny teenager who has taught her parrot, Pretty Bird, to do a decent imitation of a ball hitting a hoop.
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