{"product_id":"9781399623131-the-physics-of-sorrow","title":"The Physics of Sorrow","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe International Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTime Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethis kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compulsively readable' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly original' Alberto Manguel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on life in Communist Europe, \u003ci\u003eThe Physics of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzlingly inventive, mind-expanding novel from one of Europe's most important writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRANSLATED FROM THE BULGARIAN BY ANGELA RODEL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271126458465,"sku":"9781399623131","price":8.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_20840885.jpg?v=1708508092","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399623131-the-physics-of-sorrow","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}