Children and Fire : A Novel
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| Autore: |
Hegi Ursula
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| Titolo: |
Children and Fire : A Novel
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Scribner, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fire behavior in children - United States |
| Fires - United States | |
| Fire risk assessment - United States | |
| Fire extinction - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction |
| Note generali: | Title from title screen (viewed on July 24, 2010). |
| "January 2001 (Rev. December 2001)." | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Description -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- 1899 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- 1900 -- Chapter 11 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- 1903: September -- Chapter 14 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- 1904-1907 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- 1908 -- Chapter 25 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- 1914 -- Chapter 29 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 30 -- Chapter 31 -- 1933: May 10-12 -- Chapter 32 -- Chapter 33 -- Chapter 34 -- Tuesday, February 27, 1934 -- Chapter 35 -- Chapter 36 -- Chapter 37 -- Chapter 38 -- Back Cover. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi's acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is "a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany's history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Children and Fire tells the story of one day that will forever transform the lives of the people in Burgdorf, Germany, the fictitious village by the river in Ursula Hegi's bestselling novels. February 27, 1934-the first anniversary of the burning of Reichstag, the Parliament building in Berlin.Thekla Jansen, a gifted young teacher, loves her students and tries to protect them from the chaos beyond their village. Believing the Nazis' new regime will not last forever, Thekla begins to relinquish some of her freedoms to keep her teaching position. She has always taken her moral courage for granted, but when each compromise chips away at that courage, she knows she must reclaim it.Ursula Hegi funnels pivotal moments in history through the experience of Thekla, her students, and the townspeople as she writes along the edge where sorrow and bliss meet, and shows us how one society-educated, cultural, compassionate-can slip into a reality that's fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear.Gorgeously rendered and emotionally taut, Children and Fire confirms Ursula Hegi's position as one of the most distinguished writers of her generation. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Children and Fire |
| ISBN: | 9781451608311 |
| 1451608314 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910698444003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Topical fire research series ; ; v. 1, issue 6.