Bibliograph

A feather on the breath of God, a novel, Sigrid Nunez

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A feather on the breath of God, a novel, Sigrid Nunez

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

A feather on the breath of God

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

872617761

Responsibility statement

Sigrid Nunez

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.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

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