Georgi Gospodinov is one of Bulgaria’s most lauded authors. His novel Time Shelter won the International Booker Prize and the Premio Strega Europeo, among other prizes. Angela Rodel is a prolific translator of Bulgarian literature and won the International Booker Prize for translation.
"""For all Gospodinov’s obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny."" -- Garth Greenwell - The New Yorker ""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"