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A Feather on the Breath of God
0Authors : Sigrid Nunez
ISBN10 : 0312422733 ISBN13 : 9780312422738
Genres : Fiction,Novels,Literary Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Race,Adult Fiction,Literature,American,Relationships,Womens
Language: English
Paperback, 192 pages
Published December 27th 2005 by Picador
Description
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......more
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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.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.(less)
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About the author(Sigrid Nunez)
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including
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Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including
,
,
, and, most recently,
. She is also the author of
. Among the journals to which she has contributed are
,
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature.
Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including
,
,
, and, most recently,
. She is also the author of
. Among the journals to which she has contributed are
,
,
,
,
,
,
, and
. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature.
Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. In spring, 2019, she will be visiting writer at Syracuse University. Sigrid has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and of several other writers’ conferences across the country. She lives in New York City. (less)