At Home with Andre and Simone Weil

This memoir by Simone Weil's niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as we are likely to get to the real Weil. It illuminates Simone's relationship to her family, especially to her brother, the great Princeton mathematician Andre Weil. A clear-eyed and uncompromising memoir of her family, this is a fresh look at the noted French philosopher, mystic, and social activist.