The Vision of Emma Blau
Title | The Vision of Emma Blau PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Hegi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 2011-05-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439144125 |
Ursula Hegi returns with a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's granddaughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream: the Wasserburg, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and present. The Vision of Emma Blau illustrates a fascinating picture of immigrants in America, including their dreams and disappointments, the challenges of assimilation, the frailty of language and its transcendence, the love that bonds generations and the cultural wedges that drive them apart.
The Vision of Emma Blau
Title | The Vision of Emma Blau PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Hegi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780684829975 |
A novel of immigration and love follows a German man who flees to the U.S. at the start of the century and makes a life for himself, spawning four generations of descendants
Visions of Emma Blau
Title | Visions of Emma Blau PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Hegi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Vision of Emma Blau
Title | The Vision of Emma Blau PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Hegi |
Publisher | Chivers Sound Library |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780792724315 |
The story of a German immigrant family at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Stones from the River
Title | Stones from the River PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Hegi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2011-01-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439144761 |
From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.
Floating in My Mother's Palm
Title | Floating in My Mother's Palm PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Hegi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2011-01-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439144532 |
Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.
Vision of Emma Blau Reading Group Guide
Title | Vision of Emma Blau Reading Group Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Simon & Schuster, Limited |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780684010915 |