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The Physics of Sorrow
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Orion Publishing Group
| Author:
Georgi Gospodinov
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group
Author:
Georgi Gospodinov
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Compulsively readable’ New York Times
‘Utterly original’ Alberto Manguel
In the small and the insignificant – that’s where life hides, that’s where it builds its nest.
Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of ‘pathological empathy’, which cause him to wander unbidden into other people’s memories. He moves from recollection to recollection – from a Bulgarian country fair in 1925, where he meets a Minotaur, to inside the mind of a slug, as it is swallowed by his own Grandfather.
Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on life in Communist Europe, The Physics of Sorrow is a dazzlingly inventive, mind-expanding novel from one of Europe’s most important writers.
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Compulsively readable’ New York Times
‘Utterly original’ Alberto Manguel
In the small and the insignificant – that’s where life hides, that’s where it builds its nest.
Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of ‘pathological empathy’, which cause him to wander unbidden into other people’s memories. He moves from recollection to recollection – from a Bulgarian country fair in 1925, where he meets a Minotaur, to inside the mind of a slug, as it is swallowed by his own Grandfather.
Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on life in Communist Europe, The Physics of Sorrow is a dazzlingly inventive, mind-expanding novel from one of Europe’s most important writers.
About Author
Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have been translated into twenty-five languages and shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes. He won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europe. His most recent novel, Time Shelter, won the 2023 International Booker Prize.
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