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When We Cease to Understand the World
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When We Cease to Understand the World
A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced,mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinctionbetween genius and madness. Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.
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'A monstrous and brilliant book' - Philip Pullman
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.
Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.
With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
'Ingenious, intricate and deeply disturbing... Labatut has written a dystopian nonfiction novel set not in the future but in the present' - John Banville
'Absolutely brilliant. I was utterly gripped and wolfed it down. It feels as if he had invented an entirely new genre' - Mark Haddon
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut is praised for its ingenious and intricate narrative, described as a dystopian nonfiction novel set in the present. Critics commend its vivid and terrifying portrayal of scientific ideas and their discoverers, highlighting an inventive blend of fiction and reality. The book has been hailed for gripping storytelling and its exploration of the audacity and insanity inherent in groundbreaking scientific discoveries.
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ISBN: 9781782276142
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 May 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Adrian Nathan West
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
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About the Author
Benjamin Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima. He has published two award-winning works of fiction prior to When We Cease to Understand the World, which is his first book to be translated into English. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile.
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