"Book of My Mother" is a heartfelt tribute to the author's mother, written in a beautiful and moving style. The book has the power to make the reader appreciate their own mother even more and cherish the time spent with them. Cohen's honest and intimate writing style makes for a poignant read that will tug at the heartstrings of any reader.

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Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother’s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for  La France libre , which later grew into  Book of My Mother . Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother."

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