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The Vision of Emma Blau
Contributor(s): Hegi, Ursula (Author)

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ISBN: 0684872730     ISBN-13: 9780684872735
Publisher: Touchstone Books
OUR PRICE: $24.69  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2001
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99056392
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.28" W x 8.08" L (0.80 lbs) 432 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Germany
- Cultural Region - New England
- Demographic Orientation - Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation - German
- Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire
- Topical - Family
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times 04/01/2001 pg. 20
 
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Publisher Description:
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.


Contributor Bio(s): Hegi, Ursula: - Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
 
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