Papiervögel #[nn]

Mana Neyestani's stark black-and-white cover art sets an immediately arresting tone: small, hunched figures trudge across a barren slope while towering, jagged shards — like shattered feathers or broken blades — loom all around them in a driving rain of marks and lines. The tension between those fragile human forms and the overwhelming landscape gives this 2025 Edition Moderne release a haunting visual weight before you've even opened the cover. Written by Neyestani and Christoph Schuler, Papiervögel announces itself as something quietly powerful.