A gifted biologist's careful and beguiling study of why cuckoos have got away with tricking other birds into hatching and raising their young for thousands of y

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Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.

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When Cuckoo hatches and does not speak the same language as the rest of his family, he bravely sets out to find someone who can understand him.