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"""For all Gospodinov’s obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny."" -- Garth Greenwell - The New Yorker ""There are very few novels that appear to a seasoned reader as utterly original: The Physics of Sorrow is one of these rare books."" -- Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading"

""For all Gospodinov’s obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny."" -- Garth Greenwell - The New Yorker ""There is something of Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man here, furiously attempting to write the world before it’s all swept away... the result is a powerful toast to living."" -- Matthew Janney - Financial Times ""Brilliant . . . Elegantly translated by Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow is a fragmented novel that coheres into a remarkable, thought-provoking whole. It is a winding labyrinth through Bulgarian communism, art, literature, history, the personal past, love, sorrow, and so much more."" -- Martha Anne Toll - NPR ""The Physics of Sorrow is a novel to get lost in and a desperate struggle to look everywhere — in history, politics, science, myth, literature, and Tamagotchi (really) — to make one’s place in it all make sense."" -- Polygon ""In this swirling, ruminative novel, translated by Rodel, award-winning Bulgarian poet, playwright, and novelist Gospodinov takes the mythological minotaur as the central figure in a metafictional narrative that leaps through time and space, from King Minos’ palace to communist Bulgaria, from politics to quantum physics . . . A playful, profound meditation on storytelling and time."" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review ""There are very few novels that appear to a seasoned reader as utterly original: The Physics of Sorrow is one of these rare books."" -- Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading

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Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Angela Rodel won the International Booker for translation and has received honors such as the PEN Translation Fund Grant. She lives in Sofia.

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