The Goddess of Small Victories - Yannick Grannec torrent

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Historical Fiction Literary
Written by Yannick Grannec
Read by Emily Woo Zeller, Dawn Harvey
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:10-14-14

Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel - the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the 20th century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the greatman’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. Through descriptions of Princeton and Vienna after the war, the occupation of Austria by the Nazis, the pressures of McCarthyism, the end ofthe positivist ideal, and the advent of nuclear weapons, Anna discovers firsthand the epic story of a genius who could never quite find his place in the world - and the private torment of the woman who loved him.