Sylvie Weil is the niece of Simone Weil and the daughter of AndrÉ Weil. She earned her degrees in classics and French literature at the Sorbonne. She was a professor of French literature, and is the author of several award-winning works of fiction for adults and for young adults. Her novels have been published in the United States: My Guardian Angel (2007) and Elvina's Mirror (2009). Benjamin Ivry's previous books include biographies of Arthur Rimbaud, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. He has translated French authors such as AndrÉ Gide, Jules Verne, Balthus, and Witold Gombrowicz.

A magnificent narrative which brings back to life the brother and sister, born three years apart yet very like twins, both superlatively gifted." - Le Monde"Sylvie Weil's memoir is simply one of the best books I've read in the past decade. At turns poignant, poetic, and deeply personal, Chez les Weil is a movingly honest exploration of her own identity and the exceptional influences that helped shape it, particularly her father, AndrÉ, and his sister, Simone, her grandparents and ancestors, and the Holocaust." - Paul LeClerc, president, The New York Public Library"The missing link in the story of AndrÉ and Simone Weil is Sylvie Weil, daughter of the great mathematician, niece of the legendary philosopher. In her memoirs, which are much more than that, the 'saints' are humanized, while the 'merely' personal is transformed into something rich and strange. One enters Sylvie's world to find AndrÉ and Simone, and discovers there a hidden treasure: Sylvie herself. No student of AndrÉ or Simone Weil can afford not to enter this captivating universe." - Palle Yourgrau, author of A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of GÖdel and Einstein""At Home with AndrÉ and Simone Weil is an elegant and witty memoir-cum-reflection." - The Spectator

• ProloguePlato or DiophantusPhone CallThe TunnelA Normal Little GirlThe Saint's TibiaLiving with HerWhere to Find the Sugar BowlWho Are We Congratulating Here?To Baptize Me or Not to Baptize Me?The NunsGelfilte FishA Beauty of EuclidA Genuine Relic?Choo-ChooDo You Want to Come with Me?A Two-Headed GeniusFamily PortraitSterling Ancestors: From the Galician SideSterling Ancestors: From the Alsatian SideThe Wages of SinA Family UngluedThe Metamorphoses of a KuckuckseiThese Ruined FacesThe Garde-MeubleJerusalemA Navy Blue BeretIndestructible?JaponaiseriePulling the Wool over Her EyesTzedakahThe Old HorseVisitation RightsRevelationRoots The Mirror's EyesPale PetalsEpilogue

Sylvie Weil is the niece of Simone Weil and the daughter of AndrÉ Weil. She earned her degrees in classics and French literature at the Sorbonne. She was a professor of French literature, and is the author of several award-winning works of fiction for adults and for young adults. Her novels have been published in the United States: My Guardian Angel (2007) and Elvina's Mirror (2009). Benjamin Ivry's previous books include biographies of Arthur Rimbaud, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. He has translated French authors such as AndrÉ Gide, Jules Verne, Balthus, and Witold Gombrowicz.

A magnificent narrative which brings back to life the brother and sister, born three years apart yet very like twins, both superlatively gifted." - Le Monde"Sylvie Weil's memoir is simply one of the best books I've read in the past decade. At turns poignant, poetic, and deeply personal, Chez les Weil is a movingly honest exploration of her own identity and the exceptional influences that helped shape it, particularly her father, AndrÉ, and his sister, Simone, her grandparents and ancestors, and the Holocaust." - Paul LeClerc, president, The New York Public Library"The missing link in the story of AndrÉ and Simone Weil is Sylvie Weil, daughter of the great mathematician, niece of the legendary philosopher. In her memoirs, which are much more than that, the 'saints' are humanized, while the 'merely' personal is transformed into something rich and strange. One enters Sylvie's world to find AndrÉ and Simone, and discovers there a hidden treasure: Sylvie herself. No student of AndrÉ or Simone Weil can afford not to enter this captivating universe." - Palle Yourgrau, author of A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of GÖdel and Einstein""At Home with AndrÉ and Simone Weil is an elegant and witty memoir-cum-reflection." - The Spectator

• ProloguePlato or DiophantusPhone CallThe TunnelA Normal Little GirlThe Saint's TibiaLiving with HerWhere to Find the Sugar BowlWho Are We Congratulating Here?To Baptize Me or Not to Baptize Me?The NunsGelfilte FishA Beauty of EuclidA Genuine Relic?Choo-ChooDo You Want to Come with Me?A Two-Headed GeniusFamily PortraitSterling Ancestors: From the Galician SideSterling Ancestors: From the Alsatian SideThe Wages of SinA Family UngluedThe Metamorphoses of a KuckuckseiThese Ruined FacesThe Garde-MeubleJerusalemA Navy Blue BeretIndestructible?JaponaiseriePulling the Wool over Her EyesTzedakahThe Old HorseVisitation RightsRevelationRoots The Mirror's EyesPale PetalsEpilogue

Sylvie Weil is the niece of Simone Weil and the daughter of AndrÉ Weil. She earned her degrees in classics and French literature at the Sorbonne. She was a professor of French literature, and is the author of several award-winning works of fiction for adults and for young adults. Her novels have been published in the United States: My Guardian Angel (2007) and Elvina's Mirror (2009). Benjamin Ivry's previous books include biographies of Arthur Rimbaud, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. He has translated French authors such as AndrÉ Gide, Jules Verne, Balthus, and Witold Gombrowicz.

A magnificent narrative which brings back to life the brother and sister, born three years apart yet very like twins, both superlatively gifted." - Le Monde"Sylvie Weil's memoir is simply one of the best books I've read in the past decade. At turns poignant, poetic, and deeply personal, Chez les Weil is a movingly honest exploration of her own identity and the exceptional influences that helped shape it, particularly her father, AndrÉ, and his sister, Simone, her grandparents and ancestors, and the Holocaust." - Paul LeClerc, president, The New York Public Library"The missing link in the story of AndrÉ and Simone Weil is Sylvie Weil, daughter of the great mathematician, niece of the legendary philosopher. In her memoirs, which are much more than that, the 'saints' are humanized, while the 'merely' personal is transformed into something rich and strange. One enters Sylvie's world to find AndrÉ and Simone, and discovers there a hidden treasure: Sylvie herself. No student of AndrÉ or Simone Weil can afford not to enter this captivating universe." - Palle Yourgrau, author of A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of GÖdel and Einstein""At Home with AndrÉ and Simone Weil is an elegant and witty memoir-cum-reflection." - The Spectator

• ProloguePlato or DiophantusPhone CallThe TunnelA Normal Little GirlThe Saint's TibiaLiving with HerWhere to Find the Sugar BowlWho Are We Congratulating Here?To Baptize Me or Not to Baptize Me?The NunsGelfilte FishA Beauty of EuclidA Genuine Relic?Choo-ChooDo You Want to Come with Me?A Two-Headed GeniusFamily PortraitSterling Ancestors: From the Galician SideSterling Ancestors: From the Alsatian SideThe Wages of SinA Family UngluedThe Metamorphoses of a KuckuckseiThese Ruined FacesThe Garde-MeubleJerusalemA Navy Blue BeretIndestructible?JaponaiseriePulling the Wool over Her EyesTzedakahThe Old HorseVisitation RightsRevelationRoots The Mirror's EyesPale PetalsEpilogue