About the book
Across a labyrinth of stories about his family, the narrator of Georgi Gospodinov's novel uses the myth of the Minotaur as his organizing image. The narrative jumps between eras and points of view to explore the outlook and trappings of Eastern Europeans, with a sorrowful, misunderstood Minotaur at its centre. Episodes range from the moving, such as the time his grandfather was accidentally left behind at a mill, to the comic, including a section on how awful it is to be asked how one is doing. Readers can follow the narrator into side passages and trace the links between the stories. It reached the final round of the Gregor von Rezzori and Strega Europeo awards.
Cross Border Angels director Max Gurvits named it among four books he was reading at the time, in the original Bulgarian.
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Max Gurvits (Director/Cross Border Angels)
Right now the four books Iʼm reading are The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, 45th Parallel by Polina Zherebtsova (in Russian),“The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov (in Bulgarian), and re-reading the Dutch classic Au Pair by W.F. Hermans (in Dutch). Itʼs hard to say what we expect to gain from reading. Perhaps only true for introverts, but books are a way to look really deep into ourselves and have very meaningful conversations in our mind about the questions we think about as we go about our daily lives.
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