Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023• A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction “Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thrilling originality. The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty.” —The Washington Post “Darkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting.” —Wall Street Journal From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the
Vendor
Penguin Press
Type
Media
Weight
0.95 lb
Availability
In Stock
Edition
First Edition
Dimensions
6.15 x 9.3 x 1.2
Pages
368
Language
English
Target Audience
Adults
Genre
Books, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, 20th Century, World War II & Holocaust
ISBN-10
593654471
ISBN-13
9780593654477
