The Physics of Sorrow
Gospodinov's second novel, translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel for Open Letter.
Published in Bulgaria in 2012, the novel won a national novel-of-the-year award in Bulgaria in 2013. Rodel’s English translation followed from Open Letter in 2015, and the book went on to receive the Jan Michalski Prize and the Angelus Award. The Italian edition was shortlisted for the Strega European Prize in 2014. The New Yorker read its central quest as finding a way to live with sadness. Theodore Ushev made an animated short from it in 2019.
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