SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

A GUARDIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

'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 Schr�dinger: 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, Benjam�n 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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