The release date for the English version of 'When We Cease to Understand the World' by
Benjamín Labatut is Aug 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Listed among the 10 Best Books of 2021 by The New York Times Book Review
Nominated for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2021 International Booker Prize
a fictional investigation of the lives of actual scientists and intellectuals whose discoveries had ethical ramifications they could never have predicted.
The book When We Cease to Understand the World explores the intricate connections between mathematical and scientific advancement, insanity, and catastrophe.
Benjamín Labatut immerses the reader in the turbulent lives of notable figures such as Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger, illuminating their struggles and revealing how they addressed life's most important concerns. They have unmatched brilliance moments, break up with friends and lovers, and spiral into madness and solitude. While some of their discoveries lead to anarchy and unfathomable pain, others improve human existence. There is never a clear cut line.
At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.