Genre: | Literature |
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Language: | English |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780312422738 |
ISBN10: | 0312422733 |
Dimensions: | 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.75 inches |
Weight: | 172 g |
Published: | December 27, 2005 |
Edition: | 9 |
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love
A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.