Please, Mr. Einstein by Jean-Claude Carrière

AN ANONYMOUS girl in an unidentified city enters a nondescript building where she meets Albert Einstein. Is he a ghost? Are they in some hidden dimension? We don’t know. That’s the surreal premise of Please, Mr. Einstein, a short novel that is written almost entirely in dialogue. Einstein explains relativity in the simplest terms, discusses his life and his feelings about nuclear weapons. He is up to date on the latest developments in physics, such as string theory and the Higgs particle. Even Isaac Newton makes a brief cameo appearance. The book provides an enthusiastic introduction for those with…