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When We Cease to Understand the World
By Benjamin Labatut
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Description
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut is a fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled line between genius and madness.
The Plot
The reader is invited to ponder the consequences of scientific progress and the price of innovation, as the line between genius and madness becomes increasingly blurred.
Themes
- Scientific Discovery: A mind-expanding look at the nature of scientific discovery.
- Genius and Madness: It asks where genius ends and madness begins.
Readers fascinated by scientific discovery and the thin line between genius and madness will find much to ponder in this compelling narrative.
Book details
- Author
- Benjamin Labatut
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publication date
- Format
- Broché / couverture souple
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9781782276142
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction contemporaine, Science populaire
- Awards
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- Shortlisted: International Booker Prize 2021
- Dimensions
- 128 × 197 × 17 mm
- Weight
- 172 g
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