The Physics of Sorrow

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Product ID:	9781399623131
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Physics of Sorrow
Authors:	Author: Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation
Description:	Select Guide Rating From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories ''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. TRANSLATED FROM THE BULGARIAN BY ANGELA RODEL
Imprint Name:	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Name:	Orion Publishing Co
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2024-02-15

Weight	262 g
Dimensions	128 × 196 × 23 mm