Akron Public Library

A young American writer and his wife on an extended honeymoon in Mediterranean France and Spain become attracted to the same young woman.

When Sierva Marâia, the only child of a decaying noble family, is bitten by a rabid dog on her twelfth birthday, she is believed to be possessed and is sent to a convent where Father Cayetano Delaura oversees her exorcism.

Shanti Behari Seth, brought up in India, was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family--cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when...