Hedwig and Berti
By: Frieda Arkin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Refugees, Jewish -- Fiction; Child musicians -- Fiction; Jewish families -- Fiction; Gifted persons -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Pianists -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Hedwig and Berti is a saga of the totally unlikely marriage of a grandly Teutonic woman, Hedwig Kessler, and her diminutive cousin Berti, two upper-class German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis. They flee to London, then to New York City, and from there, finally, to a university town in Kansas. In London, Hedwig gives birth to a daughter whose broodingly dark construction and immense genius for the piano point back in time to the tragedy of her bloodline.