Postcards from the Past
Chris Power: Georgi Gospodinov’s Impossible Books, 5 June 2025
The Physics of Sorrow
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel.
Weidenfeld, 277 pp., £9.99, February 2024,978 1 3996 2313 1 Show More
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel.
Weidenfeld, 277 pp., £9.99, February 2024,
The Story Smuggler: A Very Brief Memoir
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Kristina Kovacheva and Dan Gunn.
Weidenfeld, 70 pp., £14.99, February 2024,978 1 3996 2311 7 Show More
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Kristina Kovacheva and Dan Gunn.
Weidenfeld, 70 pp., £14.99, February 2024,
“... on both right and left, as satirised in his third novel, Time Shelter (2020), which in Angela Rodel’s translation won the International Booker Prize in 2023. Throughout his work Gospodinov intermingles personal memory with historical events. He is obsessed by his childhood, but even as he excavates it he acknowledges the absurdity of being ... ”
