Physics of Sorrow

In the small and the insignificant - that`s where life hides, that`s where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of `pathological empathy`, which cause him to wander unbidden into other people`s memories. He moves from recollection to recollection - from a Bulgarian country fair in 1925, where he meets a Minotaur, to inside the mind of a slug, as it is swallowed by his own Grandfather. Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on life in Communist Europe, The Physics of Sorrow is a dazzlingly inventive, mind-expanding novel from one of Europe`s most important writers.