The Bohemian Flats - 9780816692200

The Bohemian FlatsA Novel\nAuthor(s): Mary Relindes Ellis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816692200, 978-0816692200\nSynopsis\nIn The Bohemian Flats, Mary Relindes Elliss rich, imaginative gift carries us from the bourgeois world of fin de sicle Germany to a vibrant immigrant enclave in the heart of the Midwest and to the killing fields of World War I.\n\n 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 brothers, efforts to get out of Germany and build a new life in America. While his recovery eludes him, his memory returns us to Minneapolis, to the Flats, a milling community on the Mississippi River, where Raimund and his brother Albert have sought respite from the oppressive hand of their older brother, now the master of the family farm and brewery. In Minnesota the brothers confront different forms of prejudi.