Marie Curie and the queen of hysterics FICTION ++ The Story of Blanche and Marie By Per Olov Enquist trs Tiina Nunnally HARVILL SECKER [pound]16.99 From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: October 15, 2006| Author: Paul Binding | Copyright 2006 The Independent on Sunday. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

'Love cannot be explained. But what would we be if we didn't try?" Blanche Wittmann wrote these two sentences five times, in more or less the same wording, in notebooks that were not to be discovered until 25 years after her death, encased in a brown folder labelled BOOK OF QUESTIONS. There were three of them, the Yellow, the Black and the Red. They form the basis for Per Olov Enquist's mesmeris-ing re-creation of two intertwined lives. What love and what questions! Fiction could not invent a...

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