Description
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 pleasure from the first page to the last' -- JONATHAN FRANZEN
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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet—these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
'A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent' -- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 22 mm
'A pleasure from the first page to the last' -- JONATHAN FRANZEN
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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet—these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
'A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent' -- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 22 mm
