"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Stones from the River is a story of secrets, parceled out masterfully by Trudi - and by Ursula Hegi - as they reveal the truth about living through unspeakable times. Through Trudi's unblinking eyes, we witness the growing impact of Nazism on the ordinary townsfolk of Burgdorf as they are thrust on to a larger moral stage and forced to make choices that will forever mark their lives. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but rather as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg - the German word for dwarf woman. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 19. The novel is an intimate look at what it was like for ordinary people to live through the rise of Adolf Hitler and the devastation wrought by the Third Reich. Stones from the River is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi, is the story of a dwarf who lives in the fictional small town of Burgdorf, Germany, through the first half of the twentieth century.
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