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The Vision of Emma Blau

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439144125
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Vision of Emma Blau written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780684829975
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Vision of Emma Blau written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Vision of Emma Blau

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Chivers Sound Library
ISBN 13 : 9780792724315
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Vision of Emma Blau written by Ursula Hegi and published by Chivers Sound Library. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a German immigrant family at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451661592
Total Pages : 1440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi brings together her four novels set in Burgdorf, Germany that explore the consequences of Hitler’s reign and the ramifications of World War II.

Stones from the River

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439144761
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Stones from the River written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Trailing Clouds

Author : David G. Cowart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727052
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Trailing Clouds written by David G. Cowart and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina Garcia (born in Cuba), Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Wendy Law-Yone (born in Burma), Mylène Dressler (born in the Netherlands), Lan Cao (born in Vietnam), and such Korean-born authors as Chang-rae Lee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Nora Okja Keller—writers who in recent years have come to this country and, in their work, contributed to its culture."—David CowartIn Trailing Clouds, David Cowart offers fresh insights into contemporary American literature by exploring novels and short stories published since 1970 by immigrant writers. Balancing historical and social context with close readings of selected works, Cowart explores the major themes raised in immigrant writing: the acquisition of language, the dual identity of the immigrant, the place of the homeland, and the nature of citizenship.Cowart suggests that the attention to first-generation writers (those whose parents immigrated) has not prepared us to read the fresher stories of those more recent arrivals whose immigrant experience has been more direct and unmediated. Highlighting the nuanced reflection in immigrant fiction of a nation that is ever more diverse and multicultural, Cowart argues that readers can learn much about the changes in the American way of life from writers who have come to this country, embraced its culture, and penned substantial literary work in English.

Emma Blau

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783462400762
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Emma Blau written by Ursula Hegi and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds

Author : Inga Wiehl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761862382
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds written by Inga Wiehl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in Yakima, Washington, who form a reading discussion group. Over the course of twenty-nine years, the women hone their minds, exchange ideas, and discover a sense of community that extends beyond the page.

The River Midnight

Author : Lilian Nattel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684853043
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The River Midnight written by Lilian Nattel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author turns her own family history into the story of five women, Polish Jews living in a ghetto outside Warsaw before the cataclysm of World War II.

Hotel of the Saints

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143914365X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Hotel of the Saints written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this major collection that balances her reader on the magical border of laughter and sorrow. In Hotel of the Saints, Hegi enters the perspectives of lovers and loners, eccentrics and artists, children and parents: a musician tries to protect her daughter from loving a blind man; a seminary student yearns for the certainty of faith that belonged to him as a boy; a woman transcends her embarrassment for her first love, who has tripled in size. Ursula Hegi's bicultural background enriches these eleven luminous stories that are set in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Her characters take risks in searching out the unique places where faith thrives for each of them -- a rundown hotel, the currents of Cabo San Lucas, the embrace of an ex-convict. And once again, she surrounds them with her elegant language and exquisite images.

Reading Khaled Hosseini

Author : Rebecca Stuhr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0313355118
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Reading Khaled Hosseini written by Rebecca Stuhr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Hosseini's fiction and its relation to current events and popular culture.

Songs in Ursa Major

Author : Emma Brodie
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593318625
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Songs in Ursa Major written by Emma Brodie and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six"--

Floating in My Mother's Palm

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439144532
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Floating in My Mother's Palm written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jutka

Author : Judy Gondos Jacobs
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1632998017
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Jutka written by Judy Gondos Jacobs and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one family not only survive the wrenching devastation of the Holocaust, but persevere and thrive? Judit Gondos, known as Jutka, was an ordinary little girl in Budapest, Hungary, when her life was gradually destroyed, beginning with the institutionalization of antisemitism in Hungary. Like all Jews then in Europe, she and her family had endured years of humiliation accompanying the ratcheting up of anti-Jewish sentiments and restrictions on their livelihoods and freedoms. But when the Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944, their lives, and the lives of their family, friends, and the entire community, were in peril. In Jutka, we follow the lives of the Gondos-Havas family, first in Hungary as merchants, educators, physicians, and professionals, then through their harrowing experiences during the Holocaust. We’re shown inside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where young Jutka and her parents were incarcerated. And we then see the challenges of building a new life after war’s end as Jutka becomes Judy Gondos Jacobs: an American citizen, college graduate, wife, mother, business professional, PhD, grandmother, great-grandmother, and one of a diminishing number of voices able and willing to bear witness to the Holocaust in hopes that humanity is not again overcome by evil. Judy Gondos Jacobs, PhD, is a retired pathology practice business manager who has spent decades sharing her account of the Holocaust. In recognition of her efforts, the University of Missouri–Kansas City bestowed her with the Defying the Odds Award in 2016. Judy lives in Overland Park, Kansas.

Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At Sea

Author : Emma Fedor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982171553
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book At Sea written by Emma Fedor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Cara and Brendan first meet, she's fresh out of college with a degree in the fine arts, recovering from the recent death of her mother and spending time on Martha's Vineyard while trying to figure out her next steps. She's swept away by Brendan's humor and charm and intoxicated by his thrilling, dangerous secret. He claims -- no, he insists -- that he he can breathe underwater. He shows Cara his gills. He dives beneath the waves and doesn't emerge for many minutes at a time. He offers her the most plausible of explanations: that he is a member of the United State's Army Special Forces and has undergone top-secret experimental surgery. And Cara, struck by the force of his devotion, by his unstoppable charisma, and most of all, by the casual truth of his claim, believes him. Their summer romance quickly turns serious. And then Cara gets pregnant. She and Brendan move into a house he buys for them, and when their son, Micah, is born, she is sure their happy ending is underway. Still, she is forced to contend with Brendan's dramatic moods, and struggles to overlook his unexplained disappearances and the weight of his dangerous secrets. She knows it must be PTSD. The trauma of war. The desperate, tragic memories that scar all soldiers. Cara is determined to stay strong for her young family, to heal Brendan's psychic wounds, to keep him safe. Until he and baby Micah seemingly vanish into thin air -- or deep water. Five years later, Cara is still struggling to move forward, married to another man and trying to rebuild her life, when a local fisherman announces he's spotted a man and small child treading water in Nantucket Sound. The news rekindles Cara's never-abandoned hope that her child may still be alive. As she fights to untangle delusion from reality, and revisits a past she's worked hard to reconcile, she's determined to learn the truth about her lost love and finally find her son"--

Sacred Time

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743261798
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Time written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imagination, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead he gets a very different present: his uncle Malcolm's family. Malcolm is in jail for stealing -- once again -- from his last new job, and Anthony's aunt and twin cousins settle into the Amedeos' fifth-floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the real change in Anthony's life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member's life forever. Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, Sacred Time spans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. Keenly observing the dark side of family as well as its gracefulness, Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood's tenderness and the landscape of loneliness. Ultimately she reveals how the transforming power of a singular event can reverberate through a family for generations. With gravity and poise, Hegi turns her astute yet forgiving eye on the essential frailty and dignity of the human condition in this elegant and fast-paced novel.