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The Goddess Of Small Victories

ISBN-13: 9781590516362

Contributor(s): Yannick Grannec

Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Other Press

Publication Date: 16-10-2014

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£23.99

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About the book

Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gêdel: the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the 20th century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow, Adele, a notoriously bitter woman set on taking belated revenge against the establishment by refusing to hand over these documents of immeasurable historical value. But as Anna soon finds out, Adele has a story of her own to tell