记得第一次听到乌鸦的故事,是小学课本上的《乌鸦喝水》,那是第一次见到乌鸦的样子,乌鸦利用自己的聪明才智喝到水,让我赞叹不已。乌鸦属于雀形目鸦科动物,有时也泛指这一类鸟类,而今天我看的这本《乌鸦之城》就是讲的雀形目鸦科中体型最大的鸟类——渡鸦。《乌鸦之城》是博里亚·萨克斯的最新作品,他是美国纽约默西学院的文学哲学讲师,是诗人,还是翻译家。他的作品有《神话与文学中的动物百科》《神奇的动物园》《乌鸦》等。《乌鸦之 I remember the first time I heard the story of a raven, a “crow drink water” on the textbook of a primary school. It was the first time I saw the raven. The crow used my own intelligence to drink water and made me marvel. The crow is a carnivore and sometimes refers to this category of birds. The “city of crows” I see today is about the largest bird of the family Carnivora, the Raven. Raventown is the latest work by Borja Sacks, a literary philosophy lecturer, poet or translator at Merseyside College in New York, USA. His works include “Encyclopedia of Animals in Myths and Literature”, “Magical Zoo” and “Crows”. "Crows