"For all Gospodinovs obsession with sorrow, he is a trickster at heart, and often very funny." -- Garth Greenwell - The New Yorker "There is something of Dostoyevskys Underground Man here, furiously attempting to write the world before its all swept away... the result is a powerful toast to living." -- Matthew Janney - Financial Times "Brilliant . . . Elegantly translated by Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow is a fragmented novel that coheres into a remarkable, thought-provoking whole. It is a winding labyrinth through Bulgarian communism, art, literature, history, the personal past, love, sorrow, and so much more." -- Martha Anne Toll - NPR "The Physics of Sorrow is a novel to get lost in and a desperate struggle to look everywhere in history, politics, science, myth, literature, and Tamagotchi (really) to make ones place in it all make sense." -- Polygon "In this swirling, ruminative novel, translated by Rodel, award-winning Bulgarian poet, playwright, and novelist Gospodinov takes the mythological minotaur as the central figure in a metafictional narrative that leaps through time and space, from King Minos palace to communist Bulgaria, from politics to quantum physics . . . A playful, profound meditation on storytelling and time." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "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
