. . "Sirk oyuncusu Roman." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Fiction." . . "Cesaret Roman." . . . . . "It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center, almost fourteen hundred feet above the city. Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to whom he has made a solemn promise: This wire walk will end his career. In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a Transylvanian boyhood inhabited by gypsy folklore and inspired by the bravery of his persecuted people. Salvo's story moves irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street life in Budapest, where he learns the skills of a wire walker, to the carnivals of Europe and the competitive world of the American circus. Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above the dangerous world; and most endangered if performing above a net. With compassion, warmth, and blazing originality, Ascension combines jaw-dropping storytelling, and fantastical symbolism with mesmerizing detail of Romany and circus culture, and an unforgettable walk with the amazing Salvo Ursari."@en . . . "İp cambazı"@tr . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@tr . . . . . . . . "Ascension : a novel"@en . "Ascension : a novel" . "In 1976, as retiring high-wire artist Salvo Ursari makes the perilous journey across the taut wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the story of his life unfolds." . . . "In 1976, as retiring high-wire artist Salvo Ursari makes the perilous journey across the taut wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the story of his life unfolds."@en . . . "Linegænger" . "Linegænger"@da . . . . . . . . . . "Ascension a novel" . "History" . . . . . "Ascensione"@it . "Ascensione" . . "Le soldat de verre" . . "Ascension" . "Ascension"@en . . . "Psychological fiction" . "Psychological fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "El equilibrista" . "El equilibrista"@es . . "Podniebny spacer" . "Podniebny spacer"@pl . . . . "Is the summer of 1976, aerialist Salvo Ursari is 66 years old and has decided he can never retire. Already famous thanks to his days in an American circus, he has made a living in recent times performing solo walks of extraordinary difficulty. So he finds himself attempting to accomplish the most difficult feat of his career: to walk a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, 1350 feet from the ground." . . "Biographical fiction" . . . . . . "Himmelsfärd : roman" . . "Himmelsfärd : roman"@sv . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . "This is a new title from the author of the Richard & Judy bestseller \"The Cellist of Sarajevo\". This is an unforgettable walk with Salvo Ursari, tightrope walker extraordinaire. Gripping from its very first heartstopping page, \"Ascension\" is a breathtaking novel about risk, fate and history; a dazzling feat of storytelling that takes us on an epic journey across the twentieth century. It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Centre, almost 1400 feet above the city."@en . . . . . . "Roman." . . "Amerikanisches Englisch." . . "Ortayaşlı erkekler Roman." . . "FICTION Psychological." . . "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim 1990- tłumaczenia polskie." . . "Transylvania (Romania)" . . "United States" . . "Psikolojik roman." . . "FICTION / General" . . "World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)" . .