The Empress of Weehawken
1st ed
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Author
Publication
2007 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
76,750 words, Guess
Page Count
307 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18299074M
- ISBN-139780374299125
- ISBN-100374299129
- OCLC Control Number77520540
- OCLC Control Numberempressofweehawk00disc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006101574
- LibraryThing967087
- Goodreads919211
Classifications
- LCCPS3554.I825 E47 2007
Description
Catholic upper class woman from the Rhineland marries Jewish surgeon from Silencia before WWII and retells their years in Germany during the war, later in America and looking back not only on her own life but on that of her daughter Renate and granddaughter, Irene Dische.
First Sentence
"Much of what went kaput, as the Americans say, in the generations after mine can be blamed on Carl´s low sperm count. He had murdered his men with heroism, the exact details later. As a result, he only managed one child. And that was the wrong sex. We tried and tried for another. He would plant himself inside me and till away. He worked hard, grunting and sweating- he was not a lazybone."
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