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The Turtle Warrior

By: Mary Ellis

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The Turtle Warrior is the story of the Lucas family, who live in a beautiful and remote part of Wisconsin inhabited by working-class European immigrants and the Ojibwe. By 1967 the Lucas farm has fallen into disrepair, thanks to the hard drinking of John Lucas, who brutalizes his wife and two sons. When the eldest, James, escapes by enlisting to fight in Vietnam, he leaves young Bill alone to protect his mother with only his own will and the spirit of his brother to guide him. Beautifully written and deeply felt, The Turtle Warrior takes readers from the heartland of America to the battlefields of World War II and Vietnam weaving a haunting tale of an unforgettable world where the physical and spiritual, the past and the present, merge.

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Penguin

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1101006935

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9781101006931

The Turtle Warrior

By: Mary Ellis

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388

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0143034529

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9780143034520

The Bohemian Flats

A Novel

By: Mary Relindes Ellis

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The Bohemian Flats

A Novel

By: Mary Relindes Ellis

In The Bohemian Flats, Mary Relindes Ellis’s rich, imaginative gift carries us from the bourgeois world of fin de siècle Germany to a vibrant immigrant enclave in the heart of the Midwest and to the killing fields of World War I. Shell shock, as it was called, lands Raimund Kaufmann in a London hospital, a victim of the war but also of his own, and his brother’s, efforts to get out of Germany and build a new life in America. While his recovery eludes him, his memory returns us to Minneapolis, to the Flats, a milling community on the Mississippi River, where Raimund and his brother Albert have sought respite from the oppressive hand of their older brother, now the master of the family farm and brewery. In Minnesota the brothers confront different forms of prejudice, but they also find a chance to remake their lives according to their own principles and wishes—until the war makes their German roots inescapable. Following these lives, The Bohemian Flats conjures both the sweep of irresistible history and the intimate reality of a man, and a family, caught up in it. From a nineteenth-century German farm to the thriving, wildly diverse immigrant village below Minneapolis on the Mississippi to the European front in World War I, and returning to twentieth-century America—this is a story that takes a reader to the far reaches of human experience and the depths of the human heart.

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383

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452942102

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9781452942100

Bohemian Flats

By: Ellis Mary Relindes

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Bohemian Flats

By: Ellis Mary Relindes

Après le succès de Wisconsin, le nouveau roman de Mary Relindes Ellis. Au tournant du xxe siècle, d'une petite ville bavaroise engoncée dans son obscurantisme aux opportunités du grand Midwest américain, la passionnante aventure de trois jeunes gens en quête de liberté ; une magnifique réflexion sur le déracinement, la transmission de la mémoire familiale et la cohabitation des cultures. Au pied de Minneapolis, sur la rive du Mississippi, se dressent de petites baraques de bois connues sous le nom de Bohemian Flats. C'est là, dans un joyeux chaos, que des migrants venus des quatre coins d'Europe, Tchèques, Irlandais, Finlandais ou encore Russes, échangent leurs histoires, partagent leurs coutumes, et s'épaulent sur le chemin laborieux du grand rêve américain. Parmi eux, Albert et Raimund Kaufmann et leur amie d'enfance, Magdalena Richter, aspirent à un avenir plus libre, loin d'une Allemagne moyenâgeuse et intolérante. Mais la Première Guerre mondiale éclate, et avec elle s'envole la belle harmonie qui régnait dans les Flats. Rattrapés par leur identité allemande, Albert, Raimund, Magdalena et leurs enfants vont être confrontés au passé douloureux de la famille, et à des secrets qu'ils croyaient enterrés pour toujours.

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310

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Belfond

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2714457126

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9782714457127

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