Olga Ravn | The Wax Child Sub Pop Why Do Birds Sing

Why Do Birds Sing

Bridget St

she’s seen relationships altered

Although the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up

As with the best of work that employs the tropes of apocalyptic fiction

Olga Ravn | The Wax Child Sub Pop Why Do Birds Sing9780241752746 06 11 25 HB 192 pages Translated by Martin Aitken It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour,