Let The Great World Spin\Die große Welt, englische Ausgabe
Colum McCann
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Let The Great World Spin\Die große Welt, englische Ausgabe

Winner of the National Book Award for Literature 2009

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'The comfort from the hard cold truth - the filth, the war, the poverty - was that life could be capable of small beauties.' New York, August 1974. A man is walking in the sky and the city stands still, captivated by this sight, awe and disbelief filling the streets. Philipe Petit is making his famous tightrope walk across the World Trade Centre and the lives of seven people will change forever: the Christ-like Corrigan, an Irish priest living in the Bronx with a conclave of hookers; a young woman artist in trouble with drugs and her marriage; a thirteen year old photographer obsessed with gra...