Her mother dies of tuberculosis when Marya is 11 years old. She grows up under a Russian regime that forbids her to speak her native Polish language.
Marie Curie is born Marya Sklodovski in 1867 to Polish parents in Warsaw. An artist and musician, Eve recreates moments from her mother's life in lyrically written scenes transposed with Marie's letters and journal entries, painting a vivid picture of the world-renowned physicist's personal and professional life. Marie's daughter Eve, the younger of the Curies' two children, wrote the biography clearly in reverence to her physicist mother. Madame Curie: A Biography details the struggles and triumphs of one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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