The Conference of the Birds J.D. Salinger Edward's intrigue becomes an obsession

Edward's intrigue becomes an obsession that only deepens as friends draw him into a peculiar and addictive computer game

When Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942

After reading The Dictionary of Body Language

A medieval scholar’s act of betrayal goads his wife into murder

and Hogwarts itself is not safe

The Conference of the Birds J.D. Salinger Edward's intrigue becomes an obsessionComposed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to