Whitehorn's windmill, or, The unusual events once upon a time in the land of Paudruvė

"Most of Whitehorn's Windmill was written in 1942, during the German occupation. Written in a lyrical style that gives full rein to the oral folktale tradition Lithuania is famous for, it is by turns romantic, farcical, fantastic, and tragic. The sense of spirituality that permeates the work reflects Lithuania's pagan roots that were overlaid with an occasionally over-zealous Catholicism not so very long ago.<BR><BR>The novel is about Whitehorn the miller's efforts to find a match for his beautiful daughter, Jurga, against various calamities with and among suitors, neighbors, priests and other inhabitants of the village, and ultimately against the devil's spell"--BOOK JACKET.