Anna Wulf

Anna is the main character of the novel. All events are seen through her eyes. She is a rather promiscuous, middle-aged woman living off the proceeds of a best selling novel she wrote based on time she spent in Africa. After becoming pregnant, Anna marries Max Wulf, whom she doesn't love. They are married less than one year. Anna raises her daughter, Janet, as a single-mother. After her marriage to Max, Anna becomes involved with a married man. She and Michael have a five-year affair. When this affair ends, Anna is heart-broken and disillusioned. Another facet that adds to Anna's disillusionment is the problems in the communist party, a political party of which she was a member. Anna admits to her friends she feels as if her life is cracking apart. She keeps a series of four notebooks. Each of these notebooks holds information about one particular...