02235cam a2200349 i 4500 1134352123 TxAuBib 20240410120000.0 240321s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024006349 9781668026069 HRD 28.99 1668026066 HRD 28.99 (OCoLC)1427526410 TxAuBib rda eng eng Westerbeke, Douglas, author. A short walk through a wide world [BOOK] : a novel / Douglas Westerbeke. Short Walk Through a Wide World, A. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024. 390 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition, which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor return to a place where she’s already been. From the scorched dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard, to the shelves of an infinite underground library, we follow Aubry as she learns what it takes to survive and ultimately, to truly live. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else’s...". 20240410. Immortalism Fiction. Blessing and cursing Fiction. Puzzles Fiction. Travel Fiction. Magic realist fiction.