Floating in My Mother's Palm (Paperback)

from worrellw

This is a lovely book about the memories of a child for her mother and others in the town of her childhood. It reminds that it's the small closely held memories that persist, not the grand gestures.

from mzonderm

Ursula Hegi takes us back to Burgdorf in the 1950s, a time when WWII is barely spoken of in Germany, although its scars are everywhere. This time we get the stories through the Hanna Malter, born a year after the end of the war, as she struggles to make sense of her town and her place in it. Told...

from ladybug74

I really enjoyed this book until the very last little short chapter. The whole book is told from the point of view of a German girl named Hanna Malter, but it is made up of shorter stories about different people in her life. Trudi Montag, who was in some of Hegi's other books, has reappeared in t...

from konrad.katie

I would nearly classify this book as a collection of short stories, although by the end of the book, the reader is aware that the main character is Hanna. From time to time, this distinction is unclear as you learn about the lives of the people in town.Hegi has a very pleasant writing style that ...

from kpolhuis

A collection of short stories told through the eyes of a young girl just coming of age. Though seperate stories, and of a difficult content, the way they are written is soft so that the unpalatable topics are bearable to read about and when considered all together as a whole is a very clear portr...