The Physics of Sorrow
From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter
$19.05
- 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 M…
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: | 28mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1968. His works have been translated into 35 languages and shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes. He won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize, and the 2021 Premio Strega Europe.
His short stories have been translated into multiple languages, won the Zinklar Prize for Best Short Fiction, been nominated for the Angelus award for Central European Literature, and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award. The story ‘Blind Vashya’ was adapted into an Oscar-nominated 2016 animated short film directed by Theodore Ushev.
Gospodinov’s novel Time Shelter won the 2023 International Booker Prize.
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