Hegi, Ursula

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Many of Ursula Hegi's novels take place in the fictional town of Bergdof, Germany and feature several recurring characters among the small town's residents. Her protagonists will often struggle with feelings of isolation or alienation from their community or from their families. Hegi also portrays the intersection of the personal and the historical as her characters weather the trauma of Germany's tumultuous twentieth century history. Hegi's complex, atmospheric novels take broad, panoramic views of history without diminishing the finely articulated characters that make her stories so compelling. Start with: Stones from the River
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Hegi, Ursula
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Many of Ursula Hegi's novels take place in the fictional town of Bergdof, Germany and feature several recurring characters among the small town's residents. Her protagonists will often struggle with feelings of isolation or alienation from their community or from their families. Hegi also portrays the intersection of the personal and the historical as her characters weather the trauma of Germany's tumultuous twentieth century history. Hegi's complex, atmospheric novels take broad, panoramic views of history without diminishing the finely articulated characters that make her stories so compelling. Start with: Stones from the River
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