The Far Euphrates is the story of a lonely boy, the son of a rabbi, whose small world is touched by an unlikely range of people: a dying wealthy girl, a Gypsy prophetess, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II, and the cantor and his twin sister—both victims of Auschwitz's Dr. Mengele. The recipient of secrets he cannot bear to know, Alexander engages himself in the accumulation of knowledge, in an attempt to unlock the mysteries of the universe.
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