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Name: Floating in My Mother's Palm

Author: Ursula Hegi
Year: 1990
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Genres/categories:
Fiction, Award winners, Historical fiction, Short Stories
Culture: Germany

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ISBNs:
9780684854755
0684854759

Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.

This book is part of the "Burgdorf Cycle" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Children and Fire"
First published in 2011
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"The Vision of Emma Blau"
First published in 2000
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"Stones from the River"
First published in 1994
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