The Vision of Emma Blau - Ursula Hegi

Descriere The Vision of Emma Blau - Ursula Hegi

Now in paperback comes the bestselling companion novel to Stones from the River. Hegi creates a fascinating picture of immigrants in America: their dreams and disappointments, the challenges of assimilation, the love that bonds generations, and the cultural wedges that drive them apart. \nUrsula Hegi returns with a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption. \nAt 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. \n \nThe 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. \n \nThe 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.\n

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Touchstone Books

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9780684872735

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1

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