Ascension [electronic resource]
Galloway, Steven2012
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From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a beautiful, suspense-filled novel As a young Romany boy in Transylvania in the early years of the twentieth century, Salvo Usari's mother and father are killed in a tragic fire. Forced to flee his village, leaving his brother and sister behind him, Salvo embarks on a lifetime's odyssey that takes him through the dark forests of his homeland, to the bustling streets of Budapest - where he learns the skills of a wire-walker - and eventually to the United States. There he is reunited with his family, finds fame, and eventually risks everything to perform one final - death-defying - high wire act, as he walks between the twin towers of the World Trade Center...
Main title:
Ascension [electronic resource] / Steven Galloway
Author:
Galloway, Steven, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Atlantic Books, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Steven Galloway was born in Vancouver in 1975. He is the author of two previous novels. The Cellist of Sarajevo is his first novel to be published in the UK.
ISBN:
9780857898555
Language:
English
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BRN:
1518611
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