Flotando en la Palma de la Mano de Mi Madre |
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Author:
| Hegi, Ursula |
Translator:
| Berdagué, Roser |
ISBN: | 978-84-95618-32-0 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
Publisher: | Ediciones Urano S. A.
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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The childhood of Hanna Malter was spent in the town of Burgdorf, on the banks of the Rhine in Post War Germany, where no one wanted to remember those years of horror and death and the period had disappeared even in textbooks. From the hand of Trudi Montag, the town librarian, a lonely and deformed woman that kills the boredom meddling in people's lives, Hanna discovers the secrets of her neighbors, stories that are sometimes unmentionable embarrassments and, sometimes, heroic deeds of...
More DescriptionThe childhood of Hanna Malter was spent in the town of Burgdorf, on the banks of the Rhine in Post War Germany, where no one wanted to remember those years of horror and death and the period had disappeared even in textbooks. From the hand of Trudi Montag, the town librarian, a lonely and deformed woman that kills the boredom meddling in people's lives, Hanna discovers the secrets of her neighbors, stories that are sometimes unmentionable embarrassments and, sometimes, heroic deeds of the past that adults are determined to erase.