Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima. He published two award-winning works of fiction prior to When We Cease to Understand the World, which is his first book to be translated into English. His new book The Maniac, which was written in English, is coming from Pe
Benjamín Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World (Das blinde Licht, Suhrkamp Verlag)
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Benjamín Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World (Das blinde Licht, Suhrkamp Verlag)