false 524628 4 Albert Einstein met Mileva Mari at Zurich's Polytechnikum, where they were both physics students. Shortly thereafter, in 1902, she secretly gave birth to their daughter, Lieserl, at her parents' home in a small Serbian village. Although the couple married a year later (and divorced in 1919), they never publicly acknowledged their first child--and, in all probability, the girl never left the country of her birth. In order to uncover Lieserl's fate, author Michele Zackheim knew she had to gain access to the fiercely proud and private Serbian kin who sheltered Mileva after the baby's birth until she rejoined Albert in Switzerland in 1903, and presumably never saw her daughter again. Zackheim's narrative, studded with Serbian proverbs and accounts of elaborately polite fencing with elderly relatives who might just know something, offers a vivid glimpse of a rural life that has changed little in the nearly 100 years since Mileva's time. It's also a cat-and-mouse tale of missing documents, letters with sentences obliterated or pages destroyed, and four women who might have been Lieserl... but weren't. The author's final conclusion about Lieserl's fate is speculative, to put it mildly, and most Einstein scholars have questioned it. <I>Einstein's Daughter</I> is best enjoyed as a memoir of scholarly detection and a colorful social history rather than a conventional biography. <I>--Wendy Smith</I> 2697014 1990 Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl total:26|5:3|4:6|3:12|2:5| 26 85 53 6 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 04 06:27:09 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 06:29:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 02 07:27:38 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 07:28:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Fri May 08 11:55:12 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 11:58:21 -0700 2009 Once 2 0 false false Sun Jul 15 10:05:54 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 10:07:12 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Tue Jul 29 19:18:10 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 13:28:22 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 16:23:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:24:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 11:00:35 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 11:00:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 21:40:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 20:06:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 02 07:53:09 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 07:53:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 02 07:37:26 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 07:37:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 20:53:22 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 20:53:24 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 13:49:52 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 13:49:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 19 12:53:34 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 12:53:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 16:24:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:24:47 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 07 21:12:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 21:12:50 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 16:06:08 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:06:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 15 13:50:52 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 13:51:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 14 14:38:47 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 14:38:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 08 16:34:03 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 16:34:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 31 13:26:59 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 13:26:59 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=524628