LEADER 00000nim a22005415a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125103756.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 130915s2011 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781452622309 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1452622302 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781452622309_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT10755456 037 10755456|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 813/.54|222 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Hegi, Ursula. 245 10 Children and fire|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cUrsula Hegi. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2011. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (480 min.)) :|bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 490 1 Burgdorf Cycle ;|vbk. 4 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Ursula Hegi. 520 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 book groups.Also set in Burgdorf, Germany, Hegi's Children and Fire tells the story of a single day that will forever transform the lives of the townspeople. At the core of this remarkable novel is the question of how one teacher- gifted and joyful, passionate and inventive-can become seduced by propaganda during the early months of Hitler's regime and encourage her ten-year-old students to join the "Hitler-Jugend" with its hikes and songs and bonfires. Membership, she believes, will be a step toward better schools, better apprenticeships.How can a woman we admire choose a direction we don't admire? So much has changed for the teacher, Thekla Jansen, and the people of Burgdorf in the year since the parliament building burned. Thekla's lover, Emil Hesping, is sure the Nazis did it to frame the communists. But Thekla believes what she hears on the radio, that the communists set the fire, and she's willing to relinquish some of her freedoms to keep her teaching position. She has always taken her moral courage for granted, but when each silent agreement chips away at that courage, she knows she must reclaim it.Hegi funnels pivotal moments in history through the experiences of individual characters: Thekla's mother, who works as a housekeeper for a Jewish family; her employers, Michel and Ilse Abramowitz; Thekla's mentally ill father; Trudi Montag and her father, Leo Montag; Fraulein Siderova, midwife to the dying; and the students who adore their young teacher. As Hegi writes along that edge where sorrow and bliss meet, she shows us how one society-educated, cultural, compassionate-can slip into a reality that's fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear, how a surge of national unity can be manipulated into the dehumanization of a perceived enemy and the justification of torture and murder.Gorgeously rendered and emotionally taut, Children and Fire confirms Ursula Hegi's position as one of the most distinguished writers of her generation. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Women teachers|vFiction. 650 0 Schoolboys|vFiction. 650 0 Villages|vFiction. 650 0 National socialism|vFiction. 650 0 Influence (Psychology)|vFiction. 651 0 Germany|xHistory|y1933-1945|vFiction. 655 7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 700 1 Hegi, Ursula. 710 2 hoopla digital. 800 1 Hegi, Ursula.|tBurgdorf Cycle.|sSpoken word ;|vbk. 4 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 10755456?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781452622309_180.jpeg