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When Aden’s 8-year-old daughter asks him this one morning in Paris, he is taken aback. The question is innocent, but the answer is not so simple. Unable to resist Béa’s inquisitive spirit, he moves silkily between memories of his childhood: from his silent, mysterious mother and the shanty roofs of his neighborhood to the malicious attack that changed his life forever and the ensuing struggle that made him a man.

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face...

Cuando crecía en el lado equivocado de Omaha, Shiloh sólo pensaba en escapar, en dejar todo atrás e iniciar una etapa más interesante en su vida. En aquel entonces al menos tenía a Cary: Cary la soportaba, Cary la hacía reír, aunque a los dieciséis, conduciendo la vieja camioneta de su mamá, Cary tenía las cosas peor que ella. Sólo su amistad logró que sobreviviera a la preparatoria… pero cuando ella se fue a la universidad, él se incorporó a la Marina.

Bridget O'Connor was one of the great short story writers of her generation. She had a voice that was viscerally funny and an eye for both the glaring reality and the absurdity of the everyday. In After A Dance, we meet a selection of O'Connor's most memorable characters often living on the margin of their own lives: from the anonymous thief set on an unusual prize to the hungover best man clinging to what he's lost, to the unrepentant gold-digger who always comes out on top. From unravelling narcissists to melancholy romantics all human life is here - at its best and at its delightful worst.

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.

The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin's The Dead Don't Dance. After slipping into a four-months-long coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, Dylan's wife, Maggie, finally awakens--but can the young couple pick up the broken pieces of their lives and move...

It's 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, "What if you lived your entire life without urgency?" - just before going out to make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be "good", marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that comes from existential freedom.

The story of a dance with the divine. This book is number four of the tales of Zen and her travels.

En 1929 publicó, con gran éxito de crítica, su primera novela. En 1930, con la publicación de El baile, Irène Némirovsky era una escritora en lengua francesa reconocida en la sociedad francesa; sin embargo, el gobierno francés de Vichy, rechazó su petición de nacionalización en 1938, en una actitud de antisemitismo.