Title: The goddess of small victories
Description: "Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Godel--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"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Mathematicians, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Refugees, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Family, Women librarians, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Austria, fiction
Places: Austria
People: Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)