{"product_id":"the-physics-of-sorrow","title":"The Physics of Sorrow","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature \"A quirky  compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its core.\"New York Times A finalist for both the Strega Europeo and Gregor von Rezzori awards (and winner of every Bulgarian honor possible)  The Physics of Sorrow reaffirms Georgi Gospodinovs place as one of Europes most inventive and daring writers. Using the myth of the Minotaur as its organizing image  the narrator of Gospodinovs long-awaited novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family  jumping from era to era and viewpoint to viewpoint  exploring the mindset and trappings of Eastern Europeans. Incredibly movingsuch as with the story of his grandfather accidentally being left behind at a milland extraordinarily funnysee the section on the awfulness of the question \"how are you?\"Physics is a book that you can inhabit  tracing connections  following the narrator down various \"side passages \" getting pleasantly lost in the various stories and empathizing with the sorrowful  misunderstood Minotaur at the center of it all. Like the work of Dave Eggers  Tom McCarthy  and Dubravka Ugresic  The Physics of Sorrow draws you in with its unique structure  humanitarian concerns  and stunning storytelling. Georgi Gospodinov was born in 1968 and is one of the most translated contemporary Bulgarian writers. His first novel  Natural Novel was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2005 and was praised by the New Yorker  New York Times  and several other prestigious review outlets. A collection of his short stories  And Other Stories was published by Northwestern University Press. The Physics of Sorrow is his second novel. Angela Rodel earned an M.A. in linguistics from UCLA and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study and learn Bulgarian. In 2010 she won a PEN Translation Fund Grant for Georgi Tenevs short story collection. She is one of the most prolific translators of Bulgarian literature working today and received an NEA Fellowship for her translation of Gospodinovs The Physics of Sorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965887705141,"sku":"ByrdShop_194095309X","price":37.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781940953090.jpg?v=1770548341","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-physics-of-sorrow","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}