The physics of sorrow : a novel

Author

Georgi Gospodinov

Call Number

• FICTION GOSP (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a dividsion of W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.

Physical Description

275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"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."--

Notes

"First published in Bulgaria as Fizika na tŭgata by Janet 45 Publishing."--Title page verso.