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A Feather on the Breath of God

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.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

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Release: December 27, 2005

ISBN: 0312422733

ISBN 13: 9780312422738

A Feather on the Breath of God

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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 A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.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

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Release: December 27, 2005

ISBN: 0312422733

ISBN 13: 9780312422738

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