While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. "Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world."- Booklist "A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory."- Evening Standard A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.
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