Colum McCann

Zoli ha sei anni quando i suoi genitori — accerchiati dalle guardie fasciste di Hlinka, l'Hitler slovacco — spariscono tra le crepe del lago ghiacciato per non tornare mai più.  Anni dopo, quella bambina con la gonna rossa e i capelli corti è diventata una cantante, una poetessa, l'interprete appassionata dell'anima …

In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and …

"In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of …

Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose …