Stones from the river / Ursula Hegi.
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TextPublication details: New York : Touchstone Book, 2007.Edition: 1st Touchstone paperback ed. July 2007Description: 525 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 068484477X (pbk)
- 9780684844770 (pbk)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | Hegi Ursula | Available | 33111007475193 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
A dwarf becomes the librarian of a small German town. The work makes her privy to many of the town's secrets and she uses them to set people against each other. It's her way of paying them back for the taunts and humiliations.