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The Physics of Sorrow

Georgi Gospodinov,

Angela Rodel (Translator)

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Nov 13, 2017 Lauren rated it really liked it

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This wasn't really a novel. It was more a collection of thoughts that, perhaps, could have been turned into a novel? It read more like a journal, and like a journal, parts of it were thought-provoking (How to respond to "How are you?" and parts were rather banal (quantum physics metaphors stretched too thin). It is hard for me to tell whether it is auto-biographical or not.

My husband is Bulgarian, and I have spent a fair amount of time in the country, and I many of Gospodinov's descriptions of ...more

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