Per Olov Enquist. Boken om Blanche och Marie.(Book Review)

From: World Literature Today | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Per Olov Enquist. Boken om Blanche och Marie. Stockholm. Norstedts. 2004. 258 pages. 250 kr. ISBN 91-1-301360-2

THE STORY OF BLANCHE WITTMAN AND MARIE CURIE is a gift from a literate god. It has everything: true love and exotic eroticism, characters and events of great historical resonance--but also many fascinating tidbits from the oddest corners of the past--passionate friendships, damaging enmities, debilitating sickness bravely born ... everything. The knowing god must have made this story come Per Olov Enquist's way to stop it from falling into the hands of historical ...

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