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When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World By Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut


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When We Cease to Understand the World Summary

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: 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, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

About Benjamin Labatut

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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NGR9781782276142
9781782276142
1782276149
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
New
Paperback
Pushkin Press
20210506
192
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