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When We Cease to Understand the World

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

This deceptively slim novel explores madness, divinity and scientific discovery — and reads like the best of nonfiction.

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 Grothe...