Hotel of the Saints

by UrsulaHegi (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $24.66

  The bestselling author of STONES FROM THE RIVER with her first major collection of short stories in more than a decade. Lovers and loners, eccentrics and artists, children and parents search for that unique place where faith thrives for each of them: a run-down hotel, the currents of Cabo San Lucas, an animal shelter, the embrace of an ex-convict. Informed and enriched by her bicultural heritage, Hegi's luminous tales unfold in Germany and Mexico, Italy and the USA, as her characters discover that foreign territory can be a continent away or in the same neighbourhood - even the same bed. Celebrating diversity and embracing difference, this collection confirms Ursula Hegi's reputation as an extraordinary storyteller.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $17.07

  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 the Saints, Hegi enters the perspectives of lovers and loners, eccentrics and artists, children and parents: a musician tries to protect her daughter from loving a blind man; a seminary student yearns for the certainty of faith that belonged to him as a boy; a woman transcends her embarrassment for her first love, who has tripled in size. Ursula Hegi's bicultural background enriches these eleven luminous stories that are set in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Her characters take risks in searching out the unique places where faith thrives for each of them -- a rundown hotel, the currents of Cabo San Lucas, the embrace of an ex-convict. And once again, she surrounds them with her elegant language and exquisite images.