{"product_id":"an-inventory-of-losses-by-judith-schalansky","title":"An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail\" JOHN SELF, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky's deeply engaging inventory\" MICHAEL CRONIN, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times \"Books of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e considers something that is irretrievably lost to the world, from the paradisal island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger or the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, to Sappho's love poems, Greta Garbo's fading beauty or a painting by Caspar David Friedrich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As a child of the former East Germany, it's not surprising that \"loss\" and its aftermath should haunt Schalansky's writing, but what is extraordinary and exhilarating is the engaging mixture of intellectual curiosity, ironic humour, stylistic elegance, intensity of feeling and grasp of life's pitiless vitality, that combine to make this one of the most original literary works of recent times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTranslated from the German by Jackie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43016121614399,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/14429583482732.jpg?v=1773744596","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/an-inventory-of-losses-by-judith-schalansky","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}