A Feather on the Breath of God
from the national book award-winning and bestselling author of the friend, with an introduction by susan choi
$22.40
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2021
Summary
A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel of Family, Dreams, and Identity
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes this mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349014258 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349014256 |
| Author: | Sigrid Nunez |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent - New York Times Book Review
A pleasure from the first page to the last - Jonathan FranzenRemarkable - Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAn intelligent and poignant examination of social and erotic displacement, and written with such extraordinary and seemingly unstudied conviction that one accepts every word of it as truth - Atlantic MonthlyA Feather on the Breath of God brilliantly succeeds in describing a life on the fringe, outside the conventional categories of cultural and personal identity… . A remarkable book, full of strange brilliance, trembling with fury and tenderness - Philadelphia EnquirerAbout The Author
Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of seven other novels, including Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, and What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.
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