The Thüringer House

_The Thüringer House_ is the first of a cycle of novels, "Life of Adrien Zograffi," written by the Romanian Panait Istrati in the early 1930's, shortly after his return, bitterly disillusioned, from a long stay in the Soviet Union. Adrien, servant in a bourgeois household headed by rich grain exporters, must reconcile his socialist ideals--put to the test during a strike in the grain-exporting port of Braila, on the Danube--and his growing attraction to Madame Anna Thüringer, the mistress o...