Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook

Susan Rubin Suleiman

1996

Few children know the stories of their parents. During my childhood, I knew only that mine were an impossible match—which did not prevent my mother from spending day and night at my father’s bedside after his first heart attack, or from cutting off her beautiful hair as a propitiatory offering to the Orthodox God for allowing him to get well. Her…

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Susan Rubin Suleiman

b. 1939

Budapest-born Susan Rubin Suleiman, a literary and cultural critic, translator, and editor, is a professor of French civilization and comparative literature at Harvard University. Her writing explores twentieth-century French fiction, feminism, and the Holocaust. Suleiman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and several NEH Fellowships.

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