by Ursula Hegi
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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