Everyone knows your mother is a witch /
Galchen, Rivka,
Everyone knows your mother is a witch / Rivka Galchen. - First edition. - 275 pages ; 22 cm
The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Keplerin, Katharina, 1547-1622 --Fiction.
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 --Fiction.
Trials (Witchcraft)--Fiction.
Malicious accusation--Fiction.
Germany--History--1517-1648--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Everyone knows your mother is a witch / Rivka Galchen. - First edition. - 275 pages ; 22 cm
The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
9780374280468 0374280460
2020058349
Keplerin, Katharina, 1547-1622 --Fiction.
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 --Fiction.
Trials (Witchcraft)--Fiction.
Malicious accusation--Fiction.
Germany--History--1517-1648--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.