The Physics of Sadness

“I am a person who buys the past. A story merchant. Others trade in tea, coriander, checks and promissory notes, gold watches and land. I travel and buy the past wholesale. Call me whatever you want, call me whatever you want. Those who own land are called ‘landowners’, but I am the owner of time, the owner of other people’s time, the owner of other people’s stories and pasts. I am an honest buyer, I never try to lower the price.” The Physics of Sorrow is a labyrinth-novel that Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov meticulously constructs by jumping from period to period and story to story. The narrator of the novel is a man who can penetrate other people’s minds and live what they experience, who is lost in the labyrinth called life, who loses himself and finds himself in others. As we wander through the intertwined corridors of her story, we too get lost and find ourselves there – because what she tells is so sincere, so emotional, sad, funny, deep, touching…

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Media Type: Paperback

Number of Pages:272

Size: 13x9.5

Year of First Printing:2017

Paper Type:2. Pulp

Number of Printing:1. Edition

Prepared for Publication: Özde Duygu Gürkan