A beautiful classic romance story by Móric Jókay de sva. He is sometimes known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai outside Hungary, was a Hungarian aristocrat, author, dramatist, and revolutionary. Jókai, a romance novel, became extremely popular among the Victorian British aristocracy. Queen Victoria is one of his most renowned followers and admirers. This book, translated by R. Nisbet Bain, chronicles the story of Reverend Guru Fröhlich's smart motherless daughter, Michal. When the Turkish Sultan controlled Hungary, the inhabitants enjoyed a tremendously active time-in those days (around 1650). Master David Fröhlich, the erudite and recognized Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Keszmár Lyceum, is its pride. Master Fröhlich knows all a man should know. He understands how to compute solar and lunar eclipses.

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.