Excerpt from The Wish: A Novel The estate that my father farmed was situated on a high hill close to the Prussian frontier an uncultivated, wild parh sloping gently towards the open fields formed one side of the hill, while the other sanh steeply down to a little river. On the farther side of the stream you could see a dirty little Polish frontier village. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.