New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating true story of a woman in Spain in 1933, who killed her only daughter - the mother was a feminist who had rejected marriage, selected a renegade priest to father her child, and brought her daughter up to be a prodigy - Translated from the German by Edna McCown. 115 pp. ISBN: 0-394-573285.