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...
| ISBN: | 9781843547525 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2010 |
| Author: | Steven Galloway |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary Fiction Action Adventure Historical Fiction Narrative theme: Coming of age |