When Cease Understand World by Benjamín Labatut, Signed (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, fifth printing. Book is in as-new condition without any significant bumps or creases. Soft cover only edition. Book is unread, unmarked, and signed by the author on half-title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. UNBELIEVABLY SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION, later printing. Personally hand signed and dated directly to the full title page. NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. One of The New York Times Book Review s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. 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. Signed by Author(s).