"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. : Stones from the River (9780684844770) by Hegi, Ursula and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Stones from the River is a story of secrets, parceled out masterfully by Trudi - and by Ursula Hegi - as they reveal the truth about living through unspeakable times. Through Trudi's unblinking eyes, we witness the growing impact of Nazism on the ordinary townsfolk of Burgdorf as they are thrust on to a larger moral stage and forced to make choices that will forever mark their lives. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but rather as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II.
It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and. Stones from the River is the third-person omniscient 1994 novel by Ursula Hegi which chronicles 40 years of the life of Trudi, a woman with dwarfism. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg - the German word for dwarf woman. Stones From the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of the life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 19. From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mothers Palm comes a major novel of Germany during the first half of the twentieth century. Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany.
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