false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899952m/77163.jpg 77163 14 <b>Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997</b>: Ursula Hegi's <i>Stones from the River</i> clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's <i>The Tin Drum</I>; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, <i>Stones</i> does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. <i>Stones from the River</I> is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. 1253009 1994 Stones from the River total:5782|5:1907|4:2248|3:1162|2:348|1:117| 5782 22826 7260 598 4 8 false false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Thu Oct 11 07:07:10 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 27 04:58:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Aug 28 03:34:44 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 11:51:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 21:44:12 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 22:10:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 15:11:57 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 12:36:40 -0700 2007
I found that I had to concentrate harder on this book due to the number of characters, and with all of the german names. This made it mu...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 18:16:16 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 18:16:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Aug 11 21:42:15 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 21:43:10 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Tue Jul 08 19:15:44 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 19:16:04 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 17:12:55 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 17:43:35 -0700 2008
The story, set in German in the early 1900's, is about a courageous blond, blue eyed girl named Trudi Montag who just happens to be a dwarf. Over the course of 4 decades, Trudi, tells y...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Dec 06 00:54:09 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 19 23:53:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 01 12:44:39 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 03 12:00:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 22 09:43:18 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 07:41:52 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 07:47:17 -0700 2007
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