The Vision Of Emma Blau

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Chivers Sound Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3462400762

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Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144534

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Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439144138

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Tearing the Silence by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451608314

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Children and Fire by Ursula Hegi Pdf

The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi’s acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is “a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany’s history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil” (Kirkus Reviews). Children and Fire tells the story of one day that will forever transform the lives of the people in Burgdorf, Germany, the fictitious village by the river in Ursula Hegi’s bestselling novels. February 27, 1934—the first anniversary of the burning of Reichstag, the Parliament building in Berlin. Thekla Jansen, a gifted young teacher, loves her students and tries to protect them from the chaos beyond their village. Believing the Nazis’ new regime will not last forever, Thekla begins to relinquish some of her freedoms to keep her teaching position. She has always taken her moral courage for granted, but when each compromise chips away at that courage, she knows she must reclaim it. Ursula Hegi funnels pivotal moments in history through the experience of Thekla, her students, and the townspeople as she writes along the edge where sorrow and bliss meet, and shows us how one society—educated, cultural, compassionate—can slip into a reality that’s fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear. Gorgeously rendered and emotionally taut, Children and Fire confirms Ursula Hegi’s position as one of the most distinguished writers of her generation.

Author : Simon & Schuster, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0684010917

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

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451627033

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Intrusions by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her "author" and her fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the choices women make, the ambiguities they face, and the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847398710

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The Worst Thing I've Done by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Friends since childhood, Annie, Jake and Mason had a special bond that transcended all other relationships. When Annie's parents die on her and Mason's wedding night, the three friends decide to raise Annie's infant sister, Opal, together. Entangled relationships ensue between them and Annie struggles to be both a sister and a mother to Opal. And then, on one fateful night, the friends step over a line that has shocking, unforeseen consequences. Beautifully written and brilliantly vivid, this truth-telling and engaging novel of friendship, love and death and -- ultimately -- of resilience and understanding, will resonate long after each character tells their story.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743261791

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Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Pdf

The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imagination, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead he gets a very different present: his uncle Malcolm's family. Malcolm is in jail for stealing -- once again -- from his last new job, and Anthony's aunt and twin cousins settle into the Amedeos' fifth-floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the real change in Anthony's life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member's life forever. Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, Sacred Time spans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. Keenly observing the dark side of family as well as its gracefulness, Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood's tenderness and the landscape of loneliness. Ultimately she reveals how the transforming power of a singular event can reverberate through a family for generations. With gravity and poise, Hegi turns her astute yet forgiving eye on the essential frailty and dignity of the human condition in this elegant and fast-paced novel.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144107

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Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear one day without so much as a word? How did a loving father who taught her such a beautiful thing as the salt dance become such a terrifying and abusive presence? These are the questions which Julia must confront when she returns to Spokane, Washington, after an absence of twenty-three years. Salt Dancers, a superbly written novel, is a poignant and truthful chronicle of self-discovery and the power of resurrection.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250156815

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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Hegi Pdf

"A joy to read." —New York Times Book Review From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island’s people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children. Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Zirkus seamstress with her grown daughter; and Tilli, just a girl herself, who will give birth later that day at St. Margaret’s Home for Pregnant Girls. After the tragedy, Lotte’s husband escapes with the Zirkus, while she loses the will to care for their surviving son. Tilli steps in, bonding with him in a way she isn’t allowed to with her own baby, taken away at birth. Sabine, struggling to keep her childlike daughter safe in the world, forms a complicated friendship with Lotte. But the mothers' fragile trio is threatened when Lotte and her husband hatch a dangerous plan to reunite their family, and Tilli and Sabine must try to find a way to pull them back to reality. As full of joy and beauty as it is of pain, and told with the luminous power that has made Ursula Hegi a beloved bestselling author for decades, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls is a shining testament to the ways in which women hold each other up in the most unexpected of circumstances.