Description:
A radical reimagining of the minotaur myth, from an essential voice in world literature.
Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature - Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Translation and the Strega Europeo
Brief description: Georgi Gospodinov is the recipient of the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Review Quotes: There are very few novels that appear to a seasoned reader as utterly original: The Physics of Sorrow is one of these rare books.--Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading