# Ascension

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- Authors: [Steven Galloway](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-galloway)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-02-01

## Description

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…

## Editions

### Ascension

- Publisher: Vintage Canada
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0737-540-7
- Published: 2011-07-27
- Language: en_US

### Ascension

- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-752-5
- Published: 2010-02-01
- Language: en_GB