The literary work, "The Vision Of Emma Blau", is quite a bizarre way of telling people's lives. I had read a few other books by this author, and was really impressed with them. I liked the whole idea of a series of novels about different characters in the same small village in Germany, and this book started out promisingly enough. However, it's promising start gets bogged down and this novel turns into a bore, due to Hegi's endless addition of characters and "next generations". This novel could have been briefly told in a short five chapter book, and got the point across, but the author of the story Ursula Hegi, felt the need to make every detail of the story drawn out, making it uninteresting.…
