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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Arkin, Frieda.     Subjects     Jewish refugees -- Fiction.     Child musicians -- Fiction.     Jewish families -- Fiction.     German American families -- Fiction.     Gifted persons -- Fiction.     Social classes -- Fiction     Immigrants -- Fiction.     Pianists -- Fiction.     London (England) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Arkin, Frieda.       by title:      Hedwig and Berti / F...       by call number:      FICTION ARK     Search the Web     Arkin, Frieda.     Jewish refugees -- Fiction.     Child musicians -- Fiction.     Jewish families -- Fiction.     German American families -- Fiction.     Gifted persons -- Fiction.     Social classes -- Fiction     Immigrants -- Fiction.     Pianists -- Fiction.     London (England) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Hedwig and Berti / Frieda Arkin. by Arkin, Frieda. Thomas Dunne Books, c2005. Call #: FICTION ARK Subjects Jewish refugees -- Fiction.   Child musicians -- Fiction.   Jewish families -- Fiction.   German American families -- Fiction.   Gifted persons -- Fiction.   Social classes -- Fiction   Immigrants -- Fiction.   Pianists -- Fiction.   London (England) -- Fiction. ISBN:  0312333544 Edition:  1st ed. Description:  258 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "Hedwig and Berti is a saga of the totally unlikely marriage of a grandly Teutonic woman, Hedwig Kessler, and her diminutive cousin Berti, two upper-class German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis. They flee to London, then to New York City, and from there, finally, to a university town in Kansas. In London, Hedwig gives birth to a daughter whose broodingly dark construction and immense genius for the piano point back in time to the tragedy of her bloodline.This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes, both within the domain of a severely class-conscious German-Jewish family and beyond it. The characters are subtle, and finely-honed, and their story is told with grace and unexpected humor. Like Penelope Fitzgerald, Frieda Arkin possesses a rare gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behavior of her characters in the several cultures they are forced to adapt to."--Inside jacket. Genre:  Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION ARK Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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