EAN: 9780062969880

HALF LIFE - JILLIAN CANTOR KARTONIERT (TB)

The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering  passionate life
of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines  one that mirrors
her real life  one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd made a
different choice.In Poland in 1891  Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a
budding mathematician  Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and
not good enough  he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris  where
she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go
on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.But what
if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland  married Kazimierz at the
age of twenty-four  and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had
chosen a life of domesticity witha constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where
education for women was restricted  instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre
Curie?Entwining Marie Curie's real story with Marya Zorawska's fictional one  Half Life
explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled-and probes issues of loyalty and identity  gender
and class  motherhood and sisterhood  fame and anonymity  scholarship and knowledge. Through
parallel contrasting versions of Marya's life  Jillian Cantor's unique historical novel asks
what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to
education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved - as well
as the world at large and course of science and history-might have been irrevocably changed in
ways both great and small.

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