num_pages: 525
description: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780684844770From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a stunning novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times.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 Trudy 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.
language: English
title: Stones from the River
titlecomplete: Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)
genres: Germany, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, War, Fiction, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 94977
places: Germany
series: Burgdorf Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Washington State Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction