Yannick Grannec
Yannick Grannec is a graphic designer and illustrator. After
obtaining a degree in the sciences, she began studying art and joined Les
Ateliers in Paris, where she received a degree in design. A freelance art director, professor
of fine arts in Reims, and enthusiast of mathematics, she lives in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
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The Goddess of Small Victories
- By: Yannick Grannec
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Godel–the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the twentieth 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. Through descriptions of Princeton and Vienna after the war, the occupation of Austria by the Nazis, the pressures of McCarthyism, the end of the 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.
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