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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN num: 9780684854755
ISBN number: 0684854759
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: July 03, 1998
Publishing house: Touchstone
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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 courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.
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This is a short novel that in many ways reads more like a collection of essays. It's a series of short vignettes about the people who live in a small German town in the 1950s. The narrator is a teenage girl, born just after WWII, and much of the novel deals with the consequences of war for the various townspeople. This is a town populated by a truly eclectic cast of characters. Hegi does an excellent job of delving deep into and developing each of her characters and their relationships to one another. This is the same town that was the focus of Hegi's novel Stones from the River, which is set in the same town in the interwar period and WWII. Some of the characters appear also in Stones, some do not, and they don't necessarily occupy the same places in each book. Trudi Montag, the central character in Stones from the River is far less sympathetic and far less interesting in this book. From publication dates it appears that Hegi wrote this book before she wrote Stones from the River, though I read them in the opposite order. The characters and life of the town are far more fully developed in Stones, though character development is still clearly Hegi's forte, even in this book. For those interested in Hegi's work, I recommend reading Stones first. Had I not had the background I did from Stones, I think I would have found this book less interesting.
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Ursula Hegi takes us back to Burgdorf in the 1950s, a time when WWII is barely spoken of in Germany, although its scars are everywhere. This time we get the stories through the Hanna Malter, born a year after the end of the war, as she struggles to make sense of her town and her place in it. Told as vignettes, rather than as a continuing narrative, Hegi gives her young narrator a keen eye to observe her town and a clear voice to tell us about them.
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after WWII. Hegi is one the most lyric fiction writers going today. This collection centers on the people and their stories in the small German town of Burgdorf in the years following WWII and how the towns people coped with loss, scandal, illness and dark secrets. This book is a suitable companion to the more ambitious Stones From The River. Recommended.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this narrative of life as seen through the eyes of a young girl growing up in a village exhibiting the usual fanfare of deplorable, uplifting, and unremarkable events.
Hegi's writing style suits her subject perfectly. She can say more with three carefully chosen and placed words than most can in ten. Her grasp of human nature in all its facets gives the reader the option of simply enjoying the entertaining storytelling or to delve deeper and discover the more esoteric aspects of cause and effect that propel our lives.
When in the mood for an overall uplifting, realistic read I suggest picking up this book. I finished the last page with regret but a feeling of having expanded myself in a most positive way. This isn't a "gooey" feel good book, at times you will want to cry, laugh, shout in anger, and yell in frustration.
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Wonderfully written but generally morbid. I loved Stones and immediately again appreciated Hegi's incredible writing ability. Like Stones, the environment in which the stories take place is grey and depressing. Some of the stories are very uplifting but most are about horrible things that happen to regular people. The only reason the repetition of this type of story makes sense to me is that at a certain age these are the types of things kids focus on.
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