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Ursula Hegi
Full Series List in Order
Burgdorf Cycle
1 - Stones from the River (1994)2 - Floating in My Mother's Palm (Mar-1990)
3 - The Vision of Emma Blau (Feb-2000)
4 - Children and Fire (Jun-2011)
Book List in Order: 12 titles
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Intrusions
- May-1981
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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 proc...
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Floating in My Mother's Palm
- Mar-1990
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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 cou...
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Stones from the River
- 1994
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From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a stunning novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Trudi Montag is a Zwerg -- a dwarf -- short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone wh...
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Salt Dancers
- Aug-1995
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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 ...
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Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories
- Apr-1997
- / General Fiction
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In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent. With compassion and her "unfailing immediacy of language," she raises the struggles of her character...
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The Vision of Emma Blau
- Feb-2000
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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...
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Hotel of the Saints
- Nov-2001
- / General Fiction
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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 t...
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Trudi and Pia
- Mar-2003
- / General Fiction
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Many nights the dwarf girl, Trudi, fell asleep hoping that her body would stretch itself overnight, that she'd wake up and be the size of other girls her age. Trudi doesn't know anybody like her. No one with short arms that can't reach coat hooks, or...
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Sacred Time
- Dec-2003
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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 n...
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The Worst Thing I've Done
- Oct-2007
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-- ask me, Annie. Ask me what's the worst thing I've done. Ask, goddammit. Because then you'll know I'll never go beyond last night. Tonight, Annie is driving alone from North Sea to Montauk and back again, as she has every night since her husband...
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Children and Fire
- Jun-2011
- / Historical
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THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BURGDORF CYCLE Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River captivated critics and readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic reading lists, and continues to be adopted by...
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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
- Aug-2020
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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...