Hegi, Ursula

Stones from the river by Ursula Hegi( Book )
65 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 3,700 libraries worldwide
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.

The vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi( Book )
25 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 2,033 libraries worldwide
"At the heart of this multigenerational novel by Ursula Hegi is an intriguing question: If you knew that you could experience a significant love once in your life, would you want these years at the beginning or at the end?" "The Vision of Emma Blau is the luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision that has grafted itself to his mind so tenaciously that he's dreamed of it every single night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's grand-daughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and present. Ursula Hegi creates a picture of immigrants in America: 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 irrevocably apart."--BOOK JACKET.

Sacred time by Ursula Hegi( Book )
24 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,712 libraries worldwide
When his aunt and cousins move into his 1950s Bronx home after his uncle goes to jail again, young Anthony Amedeo struggles with sharing a room with his twin female cousins, resulting in an event that irrevocably changes the family.

The worst thing I've done : a novel by Ursula Hegi( Book )
18 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 1,687 libraries worldwide
Electing to raise her infant sister when her parents are killed on her wedding day, Annie finds her intimate friendships with Jake and Mason tested until a fateful night during which the three companions goad each other into crossing a dangerous line.

Floating in my mother's palm : a novel by Ursula Hegi( Book )
17 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,317 libraries worldwide
Hanna Malter is a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, a small German town. 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, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Hegi wrote this book first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.--From publisher description.

Salt dancers by Ursula Hegi( Book )
8 editions published between 1995 and 2007 in English and held by 1,267 libraries worldwide
Julia, an unmarried woman who becomes pregnant at 41, decides to have the baby and in preparation travels to Spokane to visit her father whom she rejected for 23 years. Julia wants to make peace with him before starting her own family and the novel follows the peace process.

Tearing the silence : being German in America by Ursula Hegi( Book )
6 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 1,259 libraries worldwide
Ursula Hegi uses the art of the interview to see deeply into the personal histories of fifteen women and men as they confront at last the terrible and pervasive silence that made any mention of the Holocaust taboo in their homes and schools while they were growing up. For many of them this is the first time they've spoken of these memories and feelings. They share their pain with us, their guilt, their anger, and their compassion as they take us into the world of their.

Hotel of the saints : stories by Ursula Hegi( Book )
4 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 1,203 libraries worldwide
The bestselling and acclaimed author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this first collection in more than a decade. With her passion for storytelling and her elegant prose, Ursula Hegi balances us on that magical border where laughter and sorrow become one. She knows the language of pleasure, the language of grace, the language of grief.

Children and fire : a novel by Ursula Hegi( Book )
7 editions published in 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,043 libraries worldwide
Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Köppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.

Intrusions by Ursula Hegi( Book )
8 editions published between 1981 and 1997 in English and held by 713 libraries worldwide
A FUNNY AND ORIGINAL NOVEL EXPLORING THE DOUBTS, DECISIONS, AND 'MIGHT HAVE BEENS' THAT MARK NOT ONLY THE WRITING PROCESS BUT LIFE ITSELF. THE AUTHOR REVEALS MUCH ABOUT THE CHOICES WOMEN MAKE, THE AMBIGUITIES THEY FACE, AND THE OFTEN SURPRISING WAYS REALITY AND FICTION MERGE.