The Physics of Sorrow
From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
$24.54
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2024
Summary
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399623131 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399623133 |
| Author: | Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 262g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have been translated into thirty-five languages and shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes. He won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Central European Literature Award and the 2021 Strega European Prize. His novel Time Shelter won the 2023 International Booker Prize.
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