{"product_id":"9781399623131","title":"The Physics of Sorrow","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Gospodinov, Georgi \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/02\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781399623131,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Compulsively readable' New York Times'Utterly original' Alberto ManguelIn the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATED FROM THE BULGARIAN BY ANGELA RODEL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42590003658796,"sku":"9781399623131","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9781399623131.jpg?v=1707470624","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9781399623131","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}