Reluctant Wives

The appearance of Reluctant Wives by Mande Woljar, the famed literary figure of the Eastern European equivalent of the "Now Generation," is another milestone in the history of American publishing, rivaled in this century by only the phenomenon of Vladimir Nabokov, Russia-born author who also made the remarkable transition from his native tongue to English, in his case with that unequaled literary achievement entitled Lolita. Miss Woljar, whose dual career as novelist and consultant to the Warsaw Center for the Study of the Behavioral Sciences in her native Poland earned her acclaim for many years from only a limited part of the world, became an international cause celebre with her daring flight to freedom in the West and the subsequent legal battle in being granted political asylum over the strenuous objections of her government. Now making her home in the United States, Miss Woljar has written her first novel with a contemporary American setting, and we, the publishers, believe it to be an authoritative contribution to the library of literature touching upon the fast-changing social scene in this country.