The Empress of Weehawken
By: Irene Dische
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780374299125
Subjects: Germans -- United States -- Fiction; Refugees -- United States -- Fiction; Grandmothers -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Intergenerational relations -- Fiction; New Jersey -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: "Much of what went kaput, as the Americans say, in the generations after mine can be blamed on Carl´s low sperm count.  He had murdered his men with heroism, the exact details later. As a result, he only managed one child. And that was the wrong sex. We tried and tried for another. He would plant himself inside me and till away. He worked hard, grunting and sweating- he was not a lazybone."
Description: Catholic upper class woman from the Rhineland marries Jewish surgeon from Silencia before WWII and retells their years in Germany during the war, later in America and looking back not only on her own life but on that of her daughter Renate and granddaughter, Irene Dische.
Table of contents: title: Part I, Part 2, Part 3