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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787410803321

Autore

Gospodinov Georgi <1968->

Titolo

The physics of sorrow / / Georgi Gospodinov ; translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel ; design by N. J. Furl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, New York : , : Open Letter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-940953-10-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

891.8134

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Praise for Georgi Gospodinov""; ""Also by Georgi Gospodinov""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""THE PHYSICS OF SORROW""; ""Epigraphy""; ""Prologue""; ""I. The Bread of Sorrow""; ""II. Against an Abandonment: The Case of M.""; ""III. The Yellow House""; ""IV. Time Bomb (to Be Opened After the End of the World)""; ""V. The Green Box""; ""VI. The Story Buyer""; ""VII. Global Autumn""; ""VIII. An Elementary Physics of Sorrow""; ""IX. Endings""; ""Epilogue""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""About the Contributors""; ""About the Publisher""

Sommario/riassunto

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 Tenev's