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Book Review of The Vision of Emma Blau

The Vision of Emma Blau
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees a small town in Germany and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's granddaughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream, the Wasserburg, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and present.