Title: The third woman
Description: "Baronas has managed in The third woman to make many perceptive observations about the age of terror that prevailed in Europe in 1939-1945 ... The leading character, ostensibly, is Aldona, a superb Lithuanian woman whose one heartache is her childlessness. She assuages her great pain by becoming the foster mother of a little Jewish boy that the Nazis were eager to kill. In the end, little Michael goes back to his natural parents, but they, too, lose him to the third woman in everybody's life ... Death"--Jacket.
Subjects: Fiction, Foster mothers, Jewish children
Places: Lithuania