num_pages: 240
description: A tale inspired by the complex relationship between famous hysteria patient Blanche Wittman and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Marie Curie follows the scientist's ongoing efforts to understand the nature of radiation, while her triple-amputee assistant endeavors to explore the nature of love. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Book About Blanche and Marie
titlecomplete: The Book About Blanche and Marie
characters: Marie Curie, Blanche Wittman, Sigmund Freud, Emmeline Pankhurst, Albert Einstein
genres: Fiction, Sweden, Scandinavian Literature, Swedish Literature, Contemporary, France, Historical, Poland, Historical Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 1426
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Augustpriset
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Bernard Shaw Prize
category: Tiina Nunnally, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
category: Belletristik
publisher: The Overlook Press