A Feather on the Breath of God

Resumen del libro

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in postwar Germany and settle in New York City. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator 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A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet-these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Sigrid Nunez x{0026}lt;/strong (Nueva York, 1951) es autora de seis nove las, de entre las que destacan x{0026}lt;em A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind x{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em Salvation City, x{0026}lt;/em y del li bro sobre Susan Sontag x{0026}lt;em Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. x{0026}lt;/em Ha colaborado en numerosos medios escritos, como x{0026}lt;em The New York Times, Threepenny Re view, Harperx{0026} x02019;s, McSweeneyx{0026} x02019;s, Tin House, The Believer x{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em O: The Oprah Magazine; x{0026}lt;/em ha dado clases en universi dades como Princeton, Columbia y la Universidad de Boston, y ha sido escritora visitante en Baruch, Vassar y la Universidad de California, entre otras. Ha obteni do numerosos galardones, entre los que se cuentan cuatro premios Pushcart, el Whiting Writerx{0026} x02019;s Award, el Premio Roma de Literatura y el American Academy of Arts and Letters Award de la Fundación Rosenthal. x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El amigo x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong ha ganado el National Book Award y el New York Public Library Best Book Award.x{0026}lt;/p