Donna Rifkin of The Washington Post has high praise for The German Bride, Joanna Hershon's ambitious novel about "a German Jewish woman named Eva Frank who, after a hasty marriage in 1865, leaves her wealthy father's mansion in Berlin to pursue a new life among the 'low mud-cake hovels' of the American West. Accompanied by her husband, Eva journeys across the ocean and then across the United States to set up housekeeping in Santa Fe, a makeshift, dirty, danger-ridden settlement that was just beginning to organize itself into a town." Vanity Fair asked Hershon who she would cast in a film adaptation of her book, and she replies here.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A journey from Old Europe to the New West
Donna Rifkin of The Washington Post has high praise for The German Bride, Joanna Hershon's ambitious novel about "a German Jewish woman named Eva Frank who, after a hasty marriage in 1865, leaves her wealthy father's mansion in Berlin to pursue a new life among the 'low mud-cake hovels' of the American West. Accompanied by her husband, Eva journeys across the ocean and then across the United States to set up housekeeping in Santa Fe, a makeshift, dirty, danger-ridden settlement that was just beginning to organize itself into a town." Vanity Fair asked Hershon who she would cast in a film adaptation of her book, and she replies here.
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