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Stones from the river

A dwarf becomes the librarian of a small German town. The work makes her privy to many of the town's secrets and she uses them to set people against each other. It's her way of paying them back for the taunts and humiliations.

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  • "Stones from the river"@it

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  • "From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a major novel of Germany during the first half of the twentieth century. In historical scope, in moral complexity, in human drama, and in pure storytelling power, Stones from the River is a beautifully crafted and memorable book whose richly drawn characters stay with us long after we turn the last page."
  • "Entre 1915 et 1952, dans une petite ville allemande du nom de Burgdorf, Trudi la naine vit au rythme des brimades qui lui sont infligées. Elle travaille à la bibliothèque avec son père et devient le témoin privilégié des actes de ses contemporains, de leurs bassesses, de l'humiliation de la défaite de 1918 et de la montée du nazisme."
  • "A dwarf becomes the librarian of a small German town. The work makes her privy to many of the town's secrets and she uses them to set people against each other. It's her way of paying them back for the taunts and humiliations."@en
  • "A dwarf becomes the librarian of a small German town. The work makes her privy to many of the town's secrets and she uses them to set people against each other. It's her way of paying them back for the taunts and humiliations."
  • "De ontwikkelingen in een Duits dorpje in de periode 1915-1952, gezien door de ogen van een dwergvrouw."
  • "Trudi Montag a dwarf, living in a small German town, through both world wars, learns to find acceptance, because she learns that all humans are different."@en
  • "Trudi Montag is a Zwerg-a dwarf-short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share-from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth. From the bookjacket."@en
  • "Tells the stories of Trudi Montag, a dwarf, and her place within a small town during difficult times."
  • "A daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg - the German word for dwarf woman. 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. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but rather as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories. 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."
  • "A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."
  • "Her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars."@en
  • "Trudi Montag is a Zwerg--a dwarf--short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share--from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar."@en
  • "Trudi Montag is a Zwerga dwarfshort, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans sharefrom her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth. From the bookjacket"

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Die Andere : roman"
  • "Stones from the river"@en
  • "Stones from the river"
  • "Stones From the River"@en
  • "Kamienie z dna rzeki"@pl
  • "Kamienie z dna rzeki"
  • "Trudi la naine : roman"
  • "Stenen van de rivier : roman"
  • "Stenen van de rivier"
  • "Come pietre nel fiume"@it
  • "Come pietre nel fiume"
  • "Stones from the river / S"
  • "Stenen van der de rivier"
  • "Avanim min ha-nahar"
  • "Die Andere : Roman"
  • "Stones from the River : [a novel]"
  • "Las piedras del río"
  • "Las piedras del río"@es
  • "Stones from the river : [a novel]"@en
  • "Stones from the river : [a novel]"
  • "Trudi la naine roman"
  • "Die Andere Roman"
  • "Las Piedras del río"
  • "Stones From the River (Oprah book)"@en

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