ROWAN FARM

by Margot Benary-Isbert ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1954

This has such a quality of warm, authentic writing that one recalls its predecessor, The Ark (1953- p. 41) with considerable regret that we reported the occasional sentimentality outweighed the warmth and humanity. For one comes back to the story of the Lechows, a post-war East German refugee family, now in the first year of a new life at Rowan Farm near Frankfurt, with a sense of anticipation. The Lechows help work the farm for the Almuts, and find themselves soon an integral part of the local picture. Dr. Lechow slowly works back into practicing medicine. The heroine, 16 year old Margret, comes alive as a thoughtful girl under whose loving care the farm animals thrive as does the rest of life around her: a romance gone awry ends happily, young Andres Lechow's theatrical talents begin to flower and a young schoolmaster in the village gets the right to build a veteran's home from a ruined estate nearby. A long book, but the closely interwoven incidents give a convincingly holding view of a new Germany in the making.

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION