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In the prize-winning, internationally-acclaimed author (“One of the greatest writers alive” —Irving Howe): a Jewish lady marries a gentile worker consequently-of-the-century Austria, with devastating results. A senior school honor student bound for college and a lifetime career as a mathematician, Blanca lives with her parents in a little city in Austria in the first decades of the last century. At school oneday she meets Adolf, who originates from a household of peasant workers. Strong and high, simple and plainspoken, Adolf is unlike anybody Blanca has actually fulfilled. Although she's Jewish and Adolf is awestruck by stunning, amazing Blanca–even.