When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2021
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-614-2 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
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.
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.

Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: 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.

Benjamín 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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Adrian Nathan West
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 1-78227-614-9 / 1782276149
ISBN-13 978-1-78227-614-2 / 9781782276142
Zustand Neuware
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