Book of My Mother

Book of My Mother
ISBN-10
1935744542
ISBN-13
9781935744542
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
180
Language
English
Published
2012-04-10
Publisher
Archipelago
Author
Albert Cohen

Description

Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother’s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for La France libre, which later grew into Book of My Mother. Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother." From the Trade Paperback edition.

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