Könyvesbolt

In theory, this is a book about Marie Curie. In fact, it is about the pain of losing some to death, especially when the death is premature.Marie's husband and fellow Nobel Prize winner Pierre Curie was killed in street accident in Paris in 1906; he was 47 years old. He fell under a horse-drawn cart that fractured his skull, killing him instantly (I am curiously reminded of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the world famous architect, who was hit and killed by a trolley car in Barcelona 20 years later). Marie wrote a journal in the form of letters to her husband for a year after his death. Rosa Montero, the author of "La ridícula idea de no volver a verte," appended the journal to her book.Montero's husband Pablo Lizcano died of a brain tumor at age 58. This book, a kind of biography of Marie Curie, is also the story of Montero's loss, and the mourning of the person left behind.Anyone who has lost someone s/he loves to death will understand this beautiful book immediately. She shows the sha