Ursula Hegi

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1981
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Burgdorf Cycle

1 - Stones from the River (1994)
2 - Floating in My Mother's Palm (Mar-1990)
3 - The Vision of Emma Blau (Feb-2000)
4 - Children and Fire (Jun-2011)

Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Intrusions

    Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing proc...

  • Floating in My Mother's Palm

    Burgdorf Cycle - 2

    Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River.Hanna's cou...

  • Stones from the River

    Burgdorf Cycle - 1

    From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a stunning novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Trudi Montag is a Zwerg -- a dwarf -- short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone wh...

  • Salt Dancers

    Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear ...

  • Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

    In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent. With compassion and her "unfailing immediacy of language," she raises the struggles of her character...

  • The Vision of Emma Blau

    Burgdorf Cycle - 3

    Ursula Hegi returns with a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption.At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf...

  • Hotel of the Saints

    The bestselling author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this major collection that balances her reader on the magical border of laughter and sorrow.In Hotel of t...

  • Trudi and Pia

    Many nights the dwarf girl, Trudi, fell asleep hoping that her body would stretch itself overnight, that she'd wake up and be the size of other girls her age. Trudi doesn't know anybody like her. No one with short arms that can't reach coat hooks, or...

  • Sacred Time

    The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx n...



  • The Worst Thing I've Done

    -- ask me, Annie. Ask me what's the worst thing I've done. Ask, goddammit. Because then you'll know I'll never go beyond last night. Tonight, Annie is driving alone from North Sea to Montauk and back again, as she has every night since her husband...

  • Children and Fire

    Burgdorf Cycle - 4

    THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BURGDORF CYCLE Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River captivated critics and readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic reading lists, and continues to be adopted by...

  • The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

    From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ursula Hegi has published 12 books.

Ursula Hegi does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Ursula Hegi, Intrusions, was published in May 1981.

Yes. Ursula Hegi has 1 series.
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