The Physics of Sorrow

It all starts innocently: a boy arrives at a fair, clutching a coin he received from his father. In one of the tents, he sees the Minotaur - a creature that will deprive him of speech and peace for a long time. This unlike anything else novel is an exploration of the labyrinth: a place where we wander and find ourselves, a place where we stumble upon the most incredible (and completely ordinary) stories, a place where we eventually reach the Minotaur - a creature that may well turn out to be ourselves many years ago. A child-minotaur lost in the midst of a bustling fair. In this novel, Georgi Gospodinov, one of the most skillful storytellers in modern European literature - is in his wonderful form. He unwinds the threads of numerous plots before us, finally weaving them into a tight knot, inside which is memory and a slight sadness.