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The Physics of Sorrow

The Physics of Sorrow

Gospodinov, Georgi
Rodel, Angela

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Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 1324094893
ISBN13: 9781324094890
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Published 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).

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