Infinity Ends Soon [Paperback]

INFINITY ENDS SOON recreates the search for two characters in two different historical moments and countries: Marcos, a contemporary Colombian mathematician, and Georg Cantor, a 19th Century Russian mathematician.

The narrator, Joseph, and Marcos meet by chance in a mental hospital in Monter?a where Marcos relives the past in Medell?n, his youth, the women he loved, the violence he experienced in his beloved city, and his obsession with the late work of Cantor. Marcos is determined to solve the infinite and finish Cantor's controversial, mathematical work that only leads him to mental decline and isolation from society.

In the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Avski delivers a powerful, intellectual and often humorous tale full of mathematical revelations, dramatic tension, and lyrical solvency.

INFINITY ENDS SOON is translated by Mark McGraw with sophistication and sensitivity to language and details that only an accomplished translator of literary works can accomplish. The book was first published in Spanish in Colombia in 2015 by Emec? Colombia Editorial and taught at universities throughout South America.

Intelligent, creative, and sometimes mind-blowing, this short novel packs a lot of intellectual and emotional power. Blending philosophy, physics, and some of the most important questions raised by literature, especially those imaginative musings of Borges, we are told the story of two friends who go from metalheads in a small city in Colombia thinking they are the smartest people in the town as they listen to grunge music and graffiti the town with their political messages to actually becoming some of the smartest people in the world, and perhaps a bit crazy. In fact, this cerebral story shows us that an excessive understanding of reality and infinity sometimes sounds a lot like madness. Infinity Ends Soon also follows a parallel narrative of the mathematician George Cantor, with the style and depth of Benjam?n Labatut. --Danie