{"product_id":"an-inventory-of-losses","title":"An Inventory of Losses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Schalansky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e An Inventory of Losses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2021-12-21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands\u003cbr\u003eA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA Financial Times Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Warwick Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Helen \u0026amp; Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the International Booker Prize Each disparate object described in this book-a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific-shares a common it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss.\u003cbr\u003e      With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands , lets these objects speak for she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811231411\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judith Schalansky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53356305252659,"sku":"9780811231411","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9780811231411.jpg?v=1778843588","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/an-inventory-of-losses","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}