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Stepping out of the past, nourished by the same roots, two sisters take completely different, opposing life paths. The older one lives in the vortex of a mutilated homeland, the younger one emigrates to France. The first one tries to preserve, nurture, and pass on the heritage of her unique people. The other, left without a handhold, travels, captivating the reader from Budapest to Paris, from Paris to Bombay and beyond. Her bread is an unceasing search for God, for which she seizes every tool: religions, philosophy, mathematics. Until a number is caught in the web of mystery In her first novel, the author paints a vivid picture of 20th-century Hungary. Through the fate of an internal and an external character, she gives a taste of the fate of a Hungarian family from two perspectives. Anna Svitel was born in Budapest. After graduating from high school, she completed her university studies in Paris. She currently works at the Research House of the Sorbonne University in Paris.