Benjamin Moser

The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face

In Why This World Benjamin Moser unravels the turbulent life of an elusive genius: her birth in the nightmarish landscape of postwar Ukraine, her long exile in Brazil, her stormy personal life, her fierce talent, and how she transformed her struggles into a universally resonant art.