Stones from the River
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780613034098 (0613034090)
Publish date: March 1st 1997
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 525
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
War,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Germany
Series: Burgdorf Cycle (#1)
4.00055065
This book about WWII Germany has a dwarf named Trudi as the main character. It takes great skill to write something fresh about Nazi Germany and to avoid caricature or triteness when you choose to make your main character so obviously different from everyone else. Hegi manages it all marvelously. Af...
Trudi is a dwarf living n Germany during the Nazi Occupation. She and her father are among those who help the Jews to escape. It's a small town and many of the townspeople embrace Nazi beliefs. Trudi falls in love, but it is not reciprocated because the man cannot believe he has feelings for a dwarf...
OK, yesterday I finished the book....... and I am having a very hard time choosing the stars and knowing what to say! Yes it is a very, very good book, BUT STILL it only received 4 rather then 5 stars. The positive first! The book is speckled with marvelous lines that get you thinking. For example -...
This book got a lot of good press, and, living in Germany, I thought I'd like it, but personally I found it poorly written and found the end too pat.
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