Summary
Laurent Seksik: The Case of Eduard Einstein
"My son is the only problem that remains unsolved", writes Albert Einstein from exile. Eduard is twenty years old in the early 30s when his mother, Mileva, takes him to a mental hospital in Zurich. Einstein's son will end his life among madmen, abandoned by everyone, in the greatest misery.
Three destinies intersect in this novel, the background of which is the tragedy of the century and the epic of a genius. Laurent Seksik exposes an intimate drama in which the pain of a mother, the weaknesses of great people and the voice of a forgotten son resonate.
Laurent Seksik was born in 1962 in Nice. He is the author of six novels, and became famous in France with the novel The Last Days of Stefan Zweig, which was translated into fifteen languages. His last novel, The Case of Eduard Einstein, was shortlisted for the Goncourt literary prize in 2013, and the novel itself was the best-selling book in France for months.
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