Ursula Under

Ingrid Hill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2006
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-947986-4 (ISBN)

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Ursula Wong is the only child of a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the expense. But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity.

A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has captured the attention of the entire country. A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. Ursula Wong is the only child of a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the expense.

But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity. Ursula's forebears include a second-century BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty-nine.

Ursula's fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle.

Ingrid Hill is the author of a collection of stories, Dixie Church Interstate Blues. The mother of twelve children, she lives in Iowa City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2006
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 197 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-947986-9 / 0099479869
ISBN-13	978-0-09-947986-4 / 9780099479864
Zustand	Neuware