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The Einstein Girl (2009)

by Philip Sington(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1846552907 (ISBN13: 9781846552908)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harvill Secker

review 1: A clever, thoughtful, and interesting story, based on a what-if scenario from an all but forgotten incident in Albert Einstein's early life. What begins as a (missing persons and possibly murder?) mystery gradually meanders through an exploration of early 20th-century theories of insanity and its treatment, the rising power of the Nazis in early 1930s Germany and their determination to weed out supposedly heritable mental conditions, and the Great War's shadow in the form of a dead brother whose parting gift of a book on Einstein's theories of relativity forms part of the main character's motivation for pursuing the case of an amnesiac woman found with a copy of an announcement for one of Einstein's public lectures. The character's attempt to walk a fine line between exp... moreloiting the too-close connections of his fiancée's family to the rising powers while trying to save the woman from both his colleagues' brutal medical treatments and the new regime's directives on patients with psychiatric conditions never quite turns the book into a detailed historical or political thriller. It does, however, provide an illuminating backdrop for his final journey across Europe in pursuit of the woman's past and in flight from the continent's future. The final cadenza at the end of the book necessitates a re-reading of the very opening sections but in the process provides an alternate-universes sensation that is appropriate to the book's brief but important physics-related themes.
review 2: This really was a strange book. There were parts that I liked and parts that I didn't. It was captivating, but not from the begining. And I learned new things about Albert Einstein, but the ending was really sad and confusing.The Einstrein Girl tells the story of a young woman, found naked in a forest near Berlin, that suffers from amnesia, and her psychiatrist, who tries to find out what really happened to het. The plot thickenss when the possibility of a relationship between her and one of the greatest minds of the last century seems to appear. What made it a bit boring were the paragraphs regarding quantum Physisc and phychiatry and the long descriptions, but maybe that was just me :P less

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