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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
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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
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... translators; in this regard Gospodinov is better served by his more recent collaborators, Kristina Kovacheva, Dan Gunn and in particular Angela Rodel, than by his earlier translators, Alexis Levitin and Magdalena Levy). Gaustine is an adaptable tool, thanks to his unexplained ability to exist at different points in time. After their meeting, he ...

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