Emma Blau

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144121

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The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Pdf

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.

Author : Inga Wiehl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761862383

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Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds by Inga Wiehl Pdf

Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of “the best that has been thought and said” in literature. Over the course of twenty-nine years, the women hone their minds, exchange ideas, and discover a sense of closeness and community that extends beyond the page. Featuring detailed accounts of the recruitment process, strategies for meetings, and the methods of choosing the featured texts, this book is a vital tool for anyone interested in starting a reading group or rekindling a love of literature.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451661590

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Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi Pdf

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.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3462400762

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Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Author : David G. Cowart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501727054

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Trailing Clouds by David G. Cowart Pdf

"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.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684829975

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The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Pdf

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

Author : Lilian Nattel
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307364289

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The River Midnight by Lilian Nattel Pdf

Myth meets history in Blaszka, a fictional village in Poland and the site of this beautiful, multi-layered novel set in 1894. Listen. You can hear the excitement in the village square, the flimsy stalls piled high with wares, and in the centre Misha the midwife laughing. The wayward heart of Blaszka, she holds safe all the local secrets, including the stories of the four vilda hayas, "the wild creatures," as she and her girlfriends were known. Although the women have grown apart, unexpected love, a daughter imprisoned, and two orphan children sent home from America, entwine their lives again - all as Europe moves headlong towards chaos. In this magnificent novel of magic and mystery, Lilian Nattel has resurrected a vanished world that explores the tensions between men and women, and celebrates the wordless bonds of friendship in a way that is simply unparalleled.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439143650

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Hotel of the Saints by Ursula Hegi Pdf

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.

Author : Judy Gondos Jacobs
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632998019

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Jutka by Judy Gondos Jacobs Pdf

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.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144763

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Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Pdf

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.

Author : Simon & Schuster, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0684010917

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Vision of Emma Blau Reading Group Guide by Simon & Schuster, Limited Pdf

Author : Jess Walter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061959813

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Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Riveting. . . . Without ever taking the easy way out, the book explores the battle of good vs. evil on very human terms.” —Washington Post Book World Dark in mood and rich in character, Over Tumbled Graves by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter is that rare thriller that manages to be at once viscerally gripping and deeply provocative During a routine drug bust, on a narrow bridge over white-water falls in the center of town, Spokane detective Caroline Mabry finds herself face-to-face with a brutal murderer. Within hours, the body of a young prostitute is found on the riverbank nearby. What follows confronts our fascination with pathology and murder and stares it down, as Caroline and her cynical partner, Alan Dupree—thrown headlong into the search for a serial murderer who communicates by killing women—uncover some hard truths about their profession . . . and each other. Rich with the darkly muted colors of the Pacific Northwest skies, Over Tumbled Graves established Jess Walter as a novelist of extraordinary emotional depth and dimension.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Chivers Sound Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0792724313

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The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Pdf

The story of a German immigrant family at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123420742

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The British Journal of Photography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117908405

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf