Floating in My Mother's Palm
Glowing with the beauty and trouble of unconventionality, with the quest to transcend human tragedy, "Floating in My Mother's Palm" presents "an absolutely correct postwar Germany with all its forbidden questions and mysterious behavior, all its squalor, loss, and longing" ("Los Angeles Times").
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Glowing with the beauty and trouble of unconventionality, with the quest to transcend human tragedy, "Floating in My Mother's Palm" presents "an absolutely correct postwar Germany with all its forbidden questions and mysterious behavior, all its squalor, loss, and longing" ("Los Angeles Times").
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679731153 (0679731156)
Publish date: June 4th 1991
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 187
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Female Authors,
Short Stories,
Womens,
Germany
Series: Burgdorf Cycle (#2)
Although this book is a sequel to STONES IN THE RIVER by Ursula Hegi, it could be read as a stand-alone. The story is told from the perspective of a dwarf who becomes the town's librarian in wartime Germany. The Nazis are everywhere. Death is everywhere. The two books remind me of "The Book Thief". ...
I read this because I'd loved Stones From the River. Hegi's writing still shines in this book, but I didn't care as much for the vignette form. It does take place in the same town as SFTR and Trudi makes a cameo appearance, but I didn't like her so well in these stories. She's kind of bossy and ill-...
This is a short novel that in many ways reads more like a collection of essays. It's a series of short vignettes about the people who live in a small German town in the 1950s. The narrator is a teenage girl, born just after WWII, and much of the novel deals with the consequences of war for the vario...
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