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Benjamin Labatut & Adrian Nathan West with Jay G Ying
Anyone who studied physics at school might remember the mysterious way in which light is said to hover somewhere between wave and particle. In a similar way, according to Philip Pullman, the thrilling new work by Benjamin Labatut hovers somewhere between fiction and non-fiction. Labatut, a Chilean writer born in the Netherlands but who now lives in Chile, is an emerging superstar of this approach to writing that refuses to settle into a neatly-defined genre category: essay, memoir, conjecture and pure ficti…
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