The troubles specific to triangular relationships are explored with depth and substance in Hegi's complex and affecting latest. Annie, Jake and Mason—friends practically from the womb—have developed a ...

In her best-selling 1994 novel, “Stones from the River,” Ursula Hegi created the fictitious town of Burgdorf, Germany, and told the story of World War II through the eyes of the town’s librarian, a ...

The Vision of Emma Blau” is not a sequel to Ursula Hegi’s best-selling “Stones From the River,” but a novel that runs along beside it. “Stones From the River” is the story of Trudi Montag and her town ...

In January 1362, a vast tidal surge in the North Sea killed more than 25,000 people (some estimate as many as 100,000) in a region that now encompasses parts of Britain, Germany, Denmark and the Low ...

Acclaimed author Ursula Hegi has the corner on quirky. In "Hotel of the Saints," her new story collection, there are quirky-sad stories set in pious B&Bs and quirky-urban stories set in honky-tonk ...

Ursula Hegi, like many of us, is a little anxious about flying these days. But that won't stop her from taking a flight to the Northwest to promote a new collection of short stories titled "Hotel of ...

Hegi returns in her languid latest to the fictional village of Burgdorf, Germany, from Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau, focusing this time on Thekla Jansen, a teacher during the ...

Ursula Hegi writes without a net. Like a tightrope walker, she writes at a certain distance from the audience, balancing on a taut wire, her words coalescing out of the darkness. Inherent is a sense ...

Several acclaimed fiction writers penned accounts of personal non-fiction stories for The Washington Post Magazine's Summer Reading series. What was that experience like for them? Host Michel Martin ...

There’s magic at the margins of Bella Pollen’s wind-swept novel “The Summer of the Bear”; the kind only a child can see, the kind that turns out to be real. When Nicky Fleming, a British diplomat ...

History confirms that a town called Rungholt once existed on an island just off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein. Purportedly home to 3,000 people, it sank beneath the sea in a 1362 storm tide known as ...