The Physics of Sorrow

Using the myth of the Minotaur as its organizing image, the author builds in the novel a labyrinth of stories around the family of the main character, jumping from era to era and from viewpoint to viewpoint, exploring the mentality and aesthetics of Europeans from the East. Through pathological empathy, the character manages to embody himself in the stories of others, bringing us a variety of events that go back to prehistoric periods.

An extraordinary way of moving, such as the story of his grandfather who accidentally gets stuck in a mill – an extremely funny story ‒ or the paragraph about the horror of the question "how are you?". "The Physics of Sorrow" is a book where you can take shelter, settle in, tracing connections, following the narrator who makes you lose yourself in various stories, with the grieving and misunderstood Minotaur at the center of everything.

Like the works of Dave Eggers, Tom McCarthy and Dubravka Ugresic, "The Physics of Sorrow" is a work that draws you in with its unique structure, anxieties, losses and astonishing stories.

"A strange and readable book that carefully lets you understand the emptiness and sadness at its core." – New York Times