Off Paradise: Stories - Wegner, Hart
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Hart Wegner's vivid short stories examine self-exile through the lives of an East German family trying to assimilate in surreal and often isolated Las Vegas.
This is a collection of stories that examine self-exile through the lives of an East German family struggling to come to terms with the turmoil of history and memory while they cope with the challenges of assimilation in the alien setting of brash and glitzy Las Vegas.

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Hart Wegner's vivid short stories examine self-exile through the lives of an East German family trying to assimilate in surreal and often isolated Las Vegas.
This is a collection of stories that examine self-exile through the lives of an East German family struggling to come to terms with the turmoil of history and memory while they cope with the challenges of assimilation in the alien setting of brash and glitzy Las Vegas.
Autorenporträt
Hart Wegner is professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Fim Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and chairs the Department of Film, which he founded. His first collection of stories, Houses of Ivory, was published in 1988. A native German speaker, Wegner has attracted national notoriety for his stories written in English. His fiction has been published in distinguished literary journals, and he has received numerous grants and awards such as inclusion in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. In 1990 he was the first foreign-born writer elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.