Unfolding across decades-from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century-and across continents-from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west-Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman's devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century.
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