The Physics of Sorrow

Description

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).
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Georgi Gospodinov,Angela Rodel (Translator)
Published: 05/07/2024
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781324094890
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Gospodinov, Georgi: – Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.Rodel, Angela: – Angela Rodel won the International Booker for translation and has received honors such as the PEN Translation Fund Grant. She lives in Sofia.