Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America - Softcover
In the first book on the subject, a popular novelist interviews German Americans born in Germany during and immediately after World War II as they reveal the impact of the Holocaust on their parents' and their own lives. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age 18. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.
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Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
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- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 068484611X
- ISBN 13 9780684846118
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