![]() Opinion: I picked up this book a few years ago when I found a bag of books discarded out in the morning trash for pick up. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. ![]() Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. ![]() To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. ![]() Summary (from ): Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum her protagonist Trudi Montag-like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath-is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. ![]()
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