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The Other Einstein
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In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.
Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most 20-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.
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- PJ Goetz
- 11-08-19
Re writing history
If you follow the author's instructions and look up the Einstein papers at Princeton you will find the that the author has reinvented history to match what she would like it to be and not as it was. In the book she leads us to believe that Albert Einstein showed no interest in his first child, But if you read his letter dates Feb 4 1902 he states "what kind of little eyes does she have? Whom of us two does she resemble more? Who is giving her milk? Is she hungry? I love her so much & I don't even know her yet! Couldn't she be photographed once you are totally healthy again?...." Those are not the word of a man who is bitter for having fathered a child.
Ms. Benedict's disregard for the facts over and over in this story made it difficult for me. Mileva Maric is an interesting person. Ms. Benedict did not need to "make up ideas" about what happened (the idea for which the book is based has been proven untrue). Ms. Benedict would have paid Ms. Maric a great tribute by telling the story of her inspiring accomplishments instead of creating a work that is total fiction.
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- Beckymmoe
- 05-28-17
Fascinating story, great narration
Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein was a fascinating read, and one that is significantly adding to my TBR pile--with nonfiction, for a change! (Lots of great suggestions in the author's note at the end--thanks, Ms. Benedict!)
The author freely admits that her book is a fictionalization of Mileva Maric Einstein's life and that she makes use of much speculation (especially with regards to exactly how much of a contribution the first Mrs. Einstein made to her husband's famous Theory of Relativity--I'd love to think that her version is the truth, but it's probably a bit of a stretch and I doubt it could ever be proved), and as such I kind of hoped that Albert wasn't as much of a, well, b@stard as he seems to be in the book. Though I can still hope that at least one pretty jarring scene is completely fictional, Princeton University has been kind enough to publish volumes of Einstein's writings and correspondence and their English translations online, and I've now read the memorandum myself that made me gasp out loud when I read that part of the book (18 July 1014, Memorandum to Mileva Einstein-Maric, with comments in Volume 8--don't read it until after you've read the book, though!) and then the next few letters after that one, and...just whoa. I'm not sure I'll ever hear the name "Albert Einstein" again and be able to think purely happy thoughts about him. How can a man be so scientifically brilliant and so spectacularly not brilliant in his personal life?
(Interesting side note from the letters, not the book, since Mileva wouldn't have known this: Albert wouldn't let his second wife/cousin(!) Elsa be there when he spent time with his sons from his first marriage, because "it is not right to have the children see their father with a woman other than their own mother" yet he had no such scruples about divorcee Elsa's children from her first marriage spending time with their mother and a man who wasn't their own father...double-standard much? Oh, and just to really make it next to impossible to look up to him as a father figure and husband--he apparently briefly considered proposing to Elsa's 20-year-old daughter Ilsa instead... Yeah. He's a prince among men. But a brilliant scientist.)
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Though the story was a bit slow in parts, overall I quite enjoyed it. I look forward to both reading more about Mileva (and her children!) and more from Ms. Benedict in the future. The narration was excellent; I much preferred having someone else do all of that fancy pronouncing rather than me butchering it in my head ;)
Rating: 4 stars / B+
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- Savannah
- 02-26-17
This book is something you want in your library for life!!
Like many of us, I totally forgot that Albert Einstein had a wife early in his life. She was pushed to the background by society yet she was willing to push back ! A brilliant mathematics and physics scholar. I absolutely admire this remarkable woman!
I was disappointed in Einstein as a person..but I do believe he had some form of Autism which could explain his inability to sustain a relationship unless it was in the context of science.
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- kbl
- 04-25-19
Great performance, compelling listen but...
Look, I get that Einstein was a terrible husband to both of his wives. But this book made him a monster in the name of fiction, and there is just no evidence he thought or behaved in some of the ways he was given to in this book. With no known history of what happened to Liesl, why make him so cold and cruel about her? Yes, their divorce was ugly (as many are!) but why make it physical? Women are incredible, and I've no doubt Mileva was an incredible woman. But this book makes everyone so one sided: Mileva a put upon angel, Einstein a monster.... and that just isn't necessary or interesting in historical fiction. Life is complicated, and so are people. But this story telling was not.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-15-19
interesting story but may not be true
well told, but when I checked. a very bias viewpoint, listen to it but question accuracy
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- ARVCo
- 03-13-17
Thoughtfully written
If you like historical fiction, this is a great book for you. Beautifully written. You may get emotional when reading this, you may get upset but just like all great books, it will make you reexamine what history has always told you about life and reexamine how you see your life as well.
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- Rachael
- 06-15-17
Behind every great man... is an incredible story
Would you consider the audio edition of The Other Einstein to be better than the print version?
The narrator did an amazing job with this book. I would recommend it over print
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Other Einstein?
when Albert told Mileva that she is always trying to undermine him at the most important times in his life, and eluded to the fact that she had their first baby ON PURPOSE just to spite hime. That was such an outrageous claim
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Alot of the book moved me. This amazing woman who sacrificed so much due to what life, and the man she loved, dealt to her...she was never recognized for her brilliance and that is especially saddening.
Any additional comments?
I could not stop listening to this audiobook. I finished it in a day and a half. I would recommend to those who find this book as outstanding as I did to check out the show GENIUS on National Geographic Channel. The actress who plays Mileva on that show I think does an excellent job, especially after reading this book. I think that, although some scenes may have exaggerated in this book, the book in its totality seems pretty close to fact.
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- MICHELE L CHECK
- 05-18-20
A pleasant surprise.
I normally would not choose this genre for my reading pleasure but took the plunge on the suggestion of a close friend. Boy am I glad! So good that I couldn’t stop until I finished it ..I binged on it all day and thoroughly loved every minute of it. Really a good read!
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- Cassey Bennett
- 02-14-19
Heart Breaking
This is a heart Breaking story of a woman trapped in a life she never should have lived. very well written.
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- Susan Dare
- 10-28-17
An outstanding read... hard to put down!
I highly recommend this book. Although a work of fiction, its fact-based account of Einstein's treatment of his first wife was often astonishing.
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- osteo1
- 10-31-18
Outstanding story highlighting how women struggle for equality
This is no feminist rant for those who believe it is. It hasn't been written without reason,cause or need. It is an excellent story with a great deal of truth backed up with evidence from material gathered by the author. It shows just how long and to some extent how far women have had to come in order to be accepted in a domain perpetuated with men who can and who are often mysoginistic towards women. Sadly the story exposes how, all too often women are type cast and pigeon holed into stereotypical roles without regard or recognition for their talents and or intellect. My only thoughts after this story, is why justice hasn’t been given to balancing out that actually Albert Einstein’s wife was the brains behind the theory or relativity and it is she who should posthumously be getting a Nobel prize.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-05-22
A different perspective on Albert Einstein
This is a very brilliant novel. It shows a different perspective on Albert Einstein's life. Even though it is a novel, one cannot help but wonder whether there is a bottom of thruth...
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- Ciara Sands
- 06-27-21
As a female engineer this was inspiring.
I’m just sorry Mileva didn’t realise her potential. How history would have been re-written.
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- Lynn
- 05-10-20
Brilliant
Really enjoyed this book from the perspective of Einstein’s wife. Although in part fiction very credible. Narrated beautifully.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-27-20
Intriguing and beautifully written
I absolutely loved this book. It draws you in and holds you from start to finish. As much women’s fiction as it is historical/biographical, it brings you deep into the psychological development and emotional maturation of an intelligent woman who lacked the support that might have seen her life develop differently.
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- K. J. Kelly
- 03-13-18
Speculative but powerful look at a woman pioneer
What did you like most about The Other Einstein?
A story I never knew I should know.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Other Einstein?
The meeting and wooing of the two, their meeting of minds at first, but there were many moments that showed me the disadvantage throughout history of being born a woman.
Which character – as performed by Mozhan Marno – was your favourite?
Mitza herself. It's her story and her voice that shines.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Oh yes... without giving too much away it concerned the fate of the protagonist's child. Weeping buckets in the streets, never a good look.
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Speculative biographical narrative of the woman behind one of modern history's most influential scientists.
4.5 stars. The exact facts may, most likely, never be known, but this really gets you thinking: "who WAS the instigator? Who was the brains? Was it all really who history has led us to believe?
I saw the TV programme with Geoffrey Rush a short while ago and had this book in mind since then. With International Women's Day just past, I decided it was a good time to read about the wife and colleague of Einstein, but whose name I didn't even know.
Mileva “Mitza” Marić. A true story. A Serbian woman, with a limp, fighting to show she deserves her hard-won place at a Polytechnic in Zurich. Treated with disdain by almost everybody, one other student at first shows kindness and later respect for her mind, her ambition and her great talent for mathematics and physics. He is Albert Einstein.
This story charts the rise of Einstein through the eyes of the woman who loved him, and exactly what life there would be for someone in his shadow. Mitza speaks to us directly, and though the author has had to take liberties, surmise, take educated guesses, it feels as though it all COULD be true, things fit the known facts. Mitza shows us just how hard any woman back then would have had to work to show herself even the equal of a man, and how the natural trials of females (pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, domestic drudgery) severely limited and curtailed their potential. Maddening really.
I loved the scenes with Marie Curie, with two female scientists talking about men. I bawled (while listening on the streets!) to some very upsetting scenes of Mitza's first child and her fate. My feelings about Albert steadily changed through Mizta's story and I'm not sure I will ever think of him in quite the same way again, however many liberties have been taken with the truth.
I sped through this in less than two days, the narrator's voice on audiobook a personal and involving one. Little-known stories in history are those that make it, that the big events are built on. That deserve to be read and known and remembered.
This definitely deserves a wider readership. An early pioneer of important science and a victim of Victorian thinking, Milena both defined and was defined by history.
A sample copy of this audiobook was provided by Nudgebooks for an honest review.
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- emma
- 06-06-17
Fascinating and frustrating
An excellent dramatised account of the life of promising scientist Mitza Maric. The narration is beautiful, and the tale both fascinating and frustrating, as the talented Mitza encounters the prejudice of a male-dominated society, attempting to create a life for herself as a physicist in the shadow of her revered husband.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-28-19
This book started well, but quickly dereriorated
I found this fiction piece abusive to the legacy of both of the Einsteins. Albert is demonized well beyond any factual evidence, His poor wife, who was undoubtedly poorly treated by her husband, is portrayed to be completely incapable of sound reasoning in her evaluation of situations from the moment she met her husband to be. A little schitzophrenic for a character portrayed to be the real creator of the relativity theory? The narator did a good job.
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