- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 · Winner · for the translation by Jackie Smith
An Inventory of Losses
Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Judith Schalansky (born 1980)
Translated by Jackie Smith
English editions
In EnglishAn Inventory of Losses
New Directions · United States · 21 December 2021 · Paperback · 224 pages
An Inventory of Losses
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 20 August 2020 · Hardcover · 256 pages
An Inventory of Losses
New Directions · United States · 8 December 2020 · Hardcover · 224 pages
An Inventory of Losses
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 16 December 2021 · Paperback · 256 pages
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Some things vanish through deliberate destruction, others simply slip away over the centuries. Each piece here begins with such a disappearance, natural or man-made: a tiger species now extinct, a Pacific island swallowed by the sea, Sappho's lost poems, East Berlin's demolished parliament building. Rather than reconstruct them, the book explores what absence leaves behind, and its characters live on the edges of history, holding out against decay: an old man storing the world's knowledge in a Swiss garden, an artist who paints imaginary ruins, Greta Garbo growing old in New York, and the writer looking into the blank spaces of her own East German childhood.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 252 pages in the original
- First published
- 2018 by Suhrkamp
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9783518428245 (original)
9781529400793 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
9780811229630 (New Directions, United States)
9781529400786 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
9780811231411 (New Directions, United States)
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