A review by eyress
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński

3.0

Definitely not what I was expecting. Not a based-on-true-story, historical kind of fiction. More like an original Grimm Brothers tale of morality, where a boy has to deal with awful and frightening things before finding his way back to his parents. It brought up all these questions for me: Nature vs. nurture; does violence beget violence; can people really be rehabilitated? An interesting, if disturbing, read.