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OverviewPublished a decade before his International Booker Prize–winning Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow has become an underground cult classic. Finding strange solace in the myth of the Minotaur, a man named Georgi reconstructs the story of his life like a labyrinth, meandering through the past to find the melancholy child at the center of it all. With profound wit and empathy, he catalogues curious instances of abandonment, spanning from antiquity to the Anthropocene; recounts scenes of a turbulent boyhood in 1970s Bulgaria, spent mostly in a basement; and charts a bizarre run-in with an eccentric flaneur named Gaustine. Exquisitely translated by Angela Rodel, and exhibiting his signature audacious style, this expansive work affirms Gospodinov as “one of Europe’s most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists” (Dave Eggers). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Georgi Gospodinov , Angela RodelPublisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.336kg ISBN: 9781324094890ISBN 10: 1324094893 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 07 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""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" Author InformationGeorgi Gospodinov is one of Bulgaria’s most lauded authors. His novel Time Shelter won the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega Europeo, among other prizes. Angela Rodel is a prolific translator of Bulgarian literature and won the International Booker Prize for translation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |