A Feather on the Breath of God

Autor*innen

• Sigrid Nunez

Parameter

• 180 Seiten
• 7 Lesestunden

• 20. Jahrhundert
• Belletristik
• Gegenwartsliteratur
• Historische Romane
• Rasse, Rassismus

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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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality. It is a story about displacement and loss, and about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Einband: Paperback