Hermine: An Animal Life
Maria Beig
Translated from the German by
Jaimy Gordon

$14.00 Trade Paper
ISBN: 1-930974-48-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-48-7
186 pages
Publication Date: January 1, 2005

"Maria Beig’s Hermine is a heartbreaking bestiary, a life told in sixty-four animals. The book’s design is apt, since its protagonist elicits less regard from her farm family than its animals do. Imagine a world in which your first memories are of your ‘father’s bad-tempered scowl and the angry faces of sisters and brothers who were struck and struck back.’ . . . Maria Beig is the preeminent tour guide to the stunningly stark emotional and spiritual deprivations that afflicted German farm folk in the early twentieth century. ”

—Jim Shepard