Book description
Jonathan Noel, bank security guard, has spent 30 years protecting himself from people and events. But an encounter with a glaring pigeon upsets his ordered life and flings him into a state of fear and insecurity. From the author of the international bestselling Perfume.
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1 author picked The Pigeon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read this book for the third time in 2023, and it seems to get better at every reading... Or more likely, I get to see how I’ve changed.
It’s a simple, mostly narrative, 115-page beautifully written story about a man whose rigidly controlled life living in a small room and working as a bank security guard is completely derailed by the appearance of a pigeon where a pigeon should not be.
It’s in my list of favorites for the same reason the first two books are: it sticks with me as a real-lived experience—in this case, of going from…
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