Download or read book The Imposter written by Johanna van Zanten and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johanna is one of the daughters of a migrant cobbler from the eastern backwoods of Pomerania, born in the German Empire of the 1880s. Aching for a life of accomplishment and respect, she resolves to escape her dad's fate of early death, the stigma of his mixed Slavic-German heritage, and the poverty that followed him. A headstrong girl, she refuses to be exploited as a housemaid for a wealthy family—the only choice for girls like her. She loses her job when the master of the house tries to rape her. With nothing to lose, she accepts a job as the concession shop operator with the railroad. Her assignment is to travel with the construction crew across northern Germany. On the first day of work, she sets up shop (and home) in an empty passenger railcar and meets Hendrik, a Dutchman, and the construction superintendent. Head over heels, they marry when Johanna becomes pregnant. It doesn't take long before the first babies arrive and continue arriving: within three years, Johanna delivers five children, and the caboose becomes crowded. A railroad inspector drops in unexpectedly and bans the children from the construction site, so Johanna moves into the nearest town with the children. Johanna, now married, hides her mixed Slavic ethnicity behind Hendrik's Dutch last name, while massive, anti-Polish measures make life in the Empire difficult for Slavic people. When Germany joins Austria-Hungary in a new war—too close to Hendrik's home country—he wants to return home to neutral Holland. When Germany sinks American vessels, he's had enough and packs up his family in 1917 to move back home. The couple buys a farm with their savings in Hendrik's hometown. Then Johanna's real test of loyalty starts when the Nazis invade.

Download or read book The Convention of Wives written by Debra Green and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dina and Julia first meet at a surgical convention and bond over frustrations with their husbands’ demanding schedules. But geography, time, and growing families make maintaining their friendship difficult and their relationship eventually falls apart. One of them is left to wonder why; the other has a secret. But neither of them knows that decisions made by family members decades earlier have set them on a collision course. Years after their friendship ends, Julia gets word that her daughter has suddenly become seriously ill—and she and Dina must decide whether they can face the history that now unites them and muster the maturity to rescue their emotionally tattered families. A sweeping saga that follows generations from a shtetl in Odessa to the comforts of Scarsdale, an uprising in Glasgow to servitude in the Caribbean, and a trek through the Alps to a displaced persons camp in Italy, The Convention of Wives is a story about the ever-evolving messiness of friendship and marriage, and the wonder of survival.

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Download or read book Weltbild und Bildsprache im Werk Irmtraud Morgners written by Hildegard Rossoll and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bis vor kurzem neigte die Forschungsliteratur dazu, an Morgners Romanen das Disparate zu betonen. Demgegenüber wird hier der Nachweis geliefert, daß alle Begriffe, die in Morgners Denken eine Rolle spielen, äußerst eng aufeinander bezogen sind. Sie verweisen auf ein gemeinsames Zentrum, nämlich ein universelles Weltbild. Das Buch bietet die erste systematische Analyse von Morgners eigenwilliger Bildmotivik und zeigt, daß diese Chiffren einerseits die utopische Komponente des Weltbildes errichten und andererseits der Verständigung über Zeitverhältnisse dienen.

Download or read book 1848 und das Versprechen der Moderne written by Jürgen Fohrmann and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Fohrmann / H. J. Schneider: Einleitung - R. Kolk: "Ja, begeisternd ist der Anblick aufstrebender Jünglinge." Das Versprechen der Jugend zwischen Vormärz und Moderne - K. Stüssel: Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich ... - Revolution(en) und die Geschichte von 'Gegenwartsliteratur' - N. Oellers: Dichter in der Paulskirche - V. Kaiser: Karl Marx. Darstellung und Kritik als Versprechen zur Moderne - F. Breithaupt: Homo Oeconomicus (Junges Deutschland, Psychologie, Keller und Freytag) - J. Fohrmann: Die Erfindung des Intellektuellen - K. S. Calhoon: The Moon, the Mail, and the Province of German Literature - B. Fischer: Jüdische Emanzipation und deutsche Nation: Von Mendelssohn zu Auerbach - J. Grossman: "Die Beherrschung der Sprache": Funktionen des Jiddischen in der deutschen Kultur von Heine bis Frenzel - B. Hahn: Prekäre Kontinuitäten - oder vom Ort der "Frau"

Download or read book The Keeper of Antiquities written by I͡Uriĭ Osipovich Dombrovskiĭ and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Tower written by Uwe Tellkamp and published by Allen Lane. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East and West. Poetic, heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents and sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of 'political sabotage'. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden and New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower.

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