The Bohemian Flats

by Mary Relindes Ellis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816692203
• ISBN13: 9780816692200
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"