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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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.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.
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A Feather on the Breath of God, Sigrid Nunez
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- Released
- 1995
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- A Feather on the Breath of God
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sigrid Nunez
- Publisher
- BANTAM
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 180
- ISBN10
- 0553409751
- ISBN13
- 9780553409758
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- 3.95 out of 5
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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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.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.