Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World (eBook, ePUB)

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
Übersetzer: West, Adrian Nathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST

'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman

'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William Boyd

Sometimes discovery brings destruction

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 lives 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782276135
• Artikelnr.: 59891623

Autorenporträt

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.