Book of My Mother

Albert Cohen
$12.75 $15.00
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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 03/30/2012
ISBN: 9781935744337
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 6.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Shelf Awareness 05/08/2012